New Developments İn Kobane Strengthen The Islamic State

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish forces have halted an advance by militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Kobane and are in control of most of the Syrian border town, Kobane's top official said Thursday. Islamic State has been attacking Kobanê, the most vulnerable and exposed cantons of Rojava, from almost all sides with heavy weaponry, tanks and missiles, trying for more than five weeks to crush that city's resistance. Rojava and its explicitly secular model has represented a direct defiance to the IS's reactionary theocratic agenda. Female fighters armed with AK-47s at the forefront of a battle against an utterly misogynist group have captured the imagination of many people around the world. There have also been reports of Isis entering the town and the Kurds are apparently preparing to engage in urban warfare, but once the Islamists are in Kobane it will become far harder to hit them using air strikes. kobane news Refugee Kurds observing the attack on their homeland from just a few hundred metres across the border have expressed bewilderment and fury as to why Isis soldiers, in plain sight, are not being attacked.

The strikes came a day after the extremists pushed into Kobani, seizing three districts in the city's east after fierce street battles with its Kurdish defenders. On Tuesday, the fighting had spread to new areas in the south and west, a monitor said. The US-led coalition airstrikes, which continued in the night and the morning, are helping but are not enough”, he added, calling for arms and ammunition to be supplied to the Kurdish fighters. We all have to realise that when the US coalition bombs the ISIL into the ground and out of the sky, ISIL will still pursue its aims to set up their ideal Sharia Islamic State in Turkey and the world! Whatever Erdogan does, Turkey will be next, as the centre of the Ottoman Empire. When Kurdish protests broke out in Istanbul and across five provinces in Turkey on Tuesday, the police were swift to try to put them down, killing 21 protesters. Iraqi Kurdish forces continue to battle Islamic State in an attempt to break the Siege of Kobane and gain control of the city on the Syrian Turkish border. On daily basis smoke is seen billowing into the kobane news sky from the intense fighting. Makeshift classrooms in tents for a few refugees in the Turkish border town of Suruc offer some semblance of normality in the difficult conditions they are living in. But their role in kobane news probably saved hundreds of lives.” The SAS have mainly been active in Iraq over the last two months but some members of the elite unit were sent into Syria when Kobane looked as though it might fall into IS hands. Sources added that US Delta Force troops and the SAS were able to cut off fl anking assaults by IS militants trying to encircle the town. With the heavily-armed peshmerga in Kobane, there's renewed hope that the town won't fall to ISIS. That removes at least one flashpoint in the simmering hostilities between Turkey and the region's Kurds. Peshmerga fighters in Kobane, a town near the Turkish border that has become a focal point in the battle against the armed group, fired at least six rockets from pick-up trucks at ISIL positions on Saturday. The Iraqi Kurds arrived in Kobani late last week after Turkey granted them permission to travel by land via Turkey to Syria. Turkey had previously been reluctant to allow the Syrian Kurdish Militia (YPG) to travel through Turkish territory because it believes the YPG to be associated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) movement that has led an insurgency against the Turkish government for self-rule. However, the SRF spokesperson claimed U.S. airstrikes have done nothing to stop President Bashar Assad's forces from bombing rebel held areas. Nusra's victory over the SRF brings it a step closer to encircling the kobane news government held city of Idlib - one of Assad's last major outposts in the mostly rebel held north. Saturday sees another day of demonstrations in support of Kurdish resistance forces in the Syrian town of Kobane.