engal'in IŞİD militanlarından kurtarılmasının ardından, yaz aylarında dağlara sığınan Ezidilerin geri dönüş hazırlığı yaptığı bildirildi. IŞİD'in ise Şengal'deki yenilginin ardından Musul'da bazı militanlarını infaz ederek cezalandırdığı belirtiliyor.
RADİKAL – Irak’ta, ağırlıklı olarak Ezidi inancına mensup Kürtlerin yaşadığı Musul’a bağlı Şengal (Sincar) kasabasının Irak Şam İslam Devleti militanlarından kurtarılmasının ardından, yaz aylarında kentin düşmesiyle birlikte dağlara kaçan Ezidilerin geri dönüş hazırlığı yaptığı belirtiliyor. Yerel kaynaklar, sabah saatlerinde, kasabadan kaçamamış bir grup IŞİD mensubuyla peşmergeler arasında çatışmalar yaşandığı ancak genel olarak Kürt güçlerinin sahaya hakim olduğunu bildiriyor.
Irak Kürdistan Bölgesel Yönetimine bağlı peşmerge güçlerinin, Suriye Kürtlerinin oluşturduğu YPG ve PKK 'nın askeri kanadı HPG’nin de desteğiyle geçen hafta başlattığı operasyonun ardından kurtarılan Şengal, ağustos ayında IŞİD militanları tarafından işgal edilmiş, kentte yaşayan pek çok kişi öldürülmüş, özellikle kadınlar esir alınmış ve canını kurtarabilenler dağlara kaçmıştı. Ezidiler için kutsal kabul edilen Şengal dağında mahsur kalan onbinlerce sivilden bir bölümü de Türkiye ’ye sığınmıştı. Dağa sığının binlerce Şengalli sivil de yaklaşık bir aydır IŞİD kuşatması altındaydı.
ŞENGAL'E DÖNÜŞ HAZIRLIĞI
Irak Kürdistan Bölgesel Yönetimi'nden Peşmerge Bakanlığı sözcüsü Cabbar Yaver, Ezidilerin kente geri dönmek için hazırlık yaptıklarını söyledi. BBC Türkçe servisine konuşan Yaver, IŞİD'in Musul'dan Şengal'e takviye gönderdiğini, bazı militanların ise kentten kaçtığını; ancak peşmerge güçlerinin de ilerleyişinin de sürdüğünü söyledi. Yaver, kentin "özgürleştirilen" bölgelerinde mayın temizliği yaptıklarını ve Ezidilerin geri dönmek için hazırlığa başladıklarını kaydetti.
DUMANLA SAKLANMAYA ÇALIŞIYORLAR
Rûdaw'a konuşan Peşmerge Güçleri Komutanı Zaim Ali, kentte durumun sakin olduğunu belirterek, "Karargahları sağlamlaştırıyoruz. Bundan sonra önemli bir çatışma çıkacağını tahmin etmiyorum" dedi. Zaim Ali, kentin yüzde 30’una girdiklerini, kalan bölgelere yerleştirilen bomba ve mayınlarla, IŞİD suikastçıları nedeniyle kademe kademe gireceklerini söyledi.
Irak Kürdistan Bölgesel Yönetimine bağlı peşmerge güçlerinin, Suriye Kürtlerinin oluşturduğu YPG ve PKK 'nın askeri kanadı HPG’nin de desteğiyle geçen hafta başlattığı operasyonun ardından kurtarılan Şengal, ağustos ayında IŞİD militanları tarafından işgal edilmiş, kentte yaşayan pek çok kişi öldürülmüş, özellikle kadınlar esir alınmış ve canını kurtarabilenler dağlara kaçmıştı. Ezidiler için kutsal kabul edilen Şengal dağında mahsur kalan onbinlerce sivilden bir bölümü de Türkiye ’ye sığınmıştı. Dağa sığının binlerce Şengalli sivil de yaklaşık bir aydır IŞİD kuşatması altındaydı.
ŞENGAL'E DÖNÜŞ HAZIRLIĞI
Irak Kürdistan Bölgesel Yönetimi'nden Peşmerge Bakanlığı sözcüsü Cabbar Yaver, Ezidilerin kente geri dönmek için hazırlık yaptıklarını söyledi. BBC Türkçe servisine konuşan Yaver, IŞİD'in Musul'dan Şengal'e takviye gönderdiğini, bazı militanların ise kentten kaçtığını; ancak peşmerge güçlerinin de ilerleyişinin de sürdüğünü söyledi. Yaver, kentin "özgürleştirilen" bölgelerinde mayın temizliği yaptıklarını ve Ezidilerin geri dönmek için hazırlığa başladıklarını kaydetti.
DUMANLA SAKLANMAYA ÇALIŞIYORLAR
Rûdaw'a konuşan Peşmerge Güçleri Komutanı Zaim Ali, kentte durumun sakin olduğunu belirterek, "Karargahları sağlamlaştırıyoruz. Bundan sonra önemli bir çatışma çıkacağını tahmin etmiyorum" dedi. Zaim Ali, kentin yüzde 30’una girdiklerini, kalan bölgelere yerleştirilen bomba ve mayınlarla, IŞİD suikastçıları nedeniyle kademe kademe gireceklerini söyledi.
IŞİD militanlarının ise kaçtıkları bölgelerde büyük ateşler yakarak, dumanla kamufle olmaya, özellikle de hava saldırılarından korunmaya çalıştıkları belirtiliyor.IŞİD’DEN YENİLGİ İNFAZLARI
Öte yandan Alman haber ajansı dpa'nın görgü tanıklarına dayandırdığı haberine göre, Şengal’in Kürt güçlerinin eline geçmesi üzerine IŞİD Musul'da en az 45 militanını öldürdü. Bu infazların Şengal yenilgisi üzerine yapılan bir ‘cezalandırma’ olduğu belirtiliyor.
Örgütün Suriye'de de savaşmaktan vazgeçerek kendi ülkelerine dönmek isteyen 100'den fazla yabancı cihatçıyı infaz ettiği iddia edilmişti. Financial Times gazetesinin haberine göre öldürülenler, Suriye'nin Rakka kentindeki IŞİD karargahından kaçmak istedi.
Bu arada Kürdistan Bölgesel Yönetimi de çatışmaların başladığı Haziran'dan Aralık ayı başına kadar, IŞİD'le çatışmalarda 727 peşmergenin öldüğünü, 3 bin 564 peşmergenin de yaralandığını açıkladı.
(BBC - Rûdaw - DW - ANF)
It seems, john, this is another instance of you taking the words of very interested parties at face value. Another irresponsible, counterfactual title, much like your recent coverage of Maliki's coup in Iraq. You need to learn 
Since, Turkey is a huge US ally in the region, and unrest in Turkey could impinge on the stability of Europe as well as further destabilizing the Middle East, that's another reason why the U.S. doesn't want an independent Kurdish state. We don't want to piss off the Turks and we don't want to potentially destabilize the most democratic and stable country in the region. And Egypt is not in NATO, nor is it a close ally militarily. We support them militarily to keep the peace with Israel.
Yes, the Iraqi Kurds have been allied with the US. But you cannot see them as anything else other than US stooges, paid to provide oil. That's a shame... there's more to it than that. I can't expect 
Yes, well, as Clausewitz said, war is "War is a mere continuation of politics by other means," i.e. War is merely politics conducted through the use of force. So yes, all the problems with war are political problems. Right now, Turkey is the political problem as well as ISIS. The other half of Clausewitz dialectic is pertinent here: War is merely a duel on a larger scale. And you can't fight a duel without a weapon.
Turkey does not recognise minorities. The governments have always oppressed the Kurds. They were not allowed to have their culture, no schools in their language, and so on. The Kurds always wanted some autonomy but 
Britain's former ambassador to the US, Christopher Meyer, has criticised Labour's apparent insistence on UN security council backing for air strikes in Syria. Meyer accused Labour of subcontracting its policy to China 
But that's not so simple. They would probably need to fly them out of Incirlik in Turkey and of course the Turks are 'conflicted'. Also they'd need to have robust search and rescue capability right across the border 
But apparently the Kurdish women are aware that under the rule of groups like ISIS (and the less extremist but still very very extreme groups like the Taliban and Al Qaeda) they will have no choices about their own lives. She probably made a calculated decision to save those whom she commanded, friends whom she loved and cherished, by sacrificing her life to take out a dangerous ISIS unit that had been killing many.
Further complicating the issue, the U.S. said it has begun talking directly to the Kurdish fighters' political wing in Kobani — a diplomatic move that is likely to anger Turkey. The U.S. isn't sure why IS is fighting so hard for control of Kobani, a city with few resources and far removed from any capital. But like the U.S. with Kobani, a loss to a ragtag group of Kurdish fighters would be a propaganda loss for IS.
Regarding the grinding nature of urban warfare, I would bet that ISIS isn't up to it, they are used to soft, easy targets that roll over. A couple of months of intense urban warfare, and I'm guessing that large portions of Da'esh will want to go home to the UK, Germany, Turkey, or wherever they are from. There is no reason why the Kurds should still be fighting, except by sheer determination and strength of will.
What many don't know is that Kobane was the smallest, weakest, and geographically most difficult to defend of the 3 Kurdish Cantons in Syria. If ISIS can't take Kobane, it'll be near impossible for then to 
Finally, the main armed Kurdish resistance in Turkey is the PKK. Not only were they aligned with the Communists back when that mattered, but they've also been implicated in acts of terrorism. So, not nice people. Vote for the Democratic candidates. 
On Syria he came close to ruling out Labour backing for air strikes. The situation in Syria is somewhat different,” he said. Miliband pointed out that unlike Iraq, Syria is not asking for intervention. He said he would be calling for a UN resolution on air strikes in Syria. Air strikes alone will not defeat Isis,” Miliband said. We're doing some maintenance right now. You can still read comments, but please come back later to add your own.
I wonder if someone promised them they would go to some women's heaven where they would not have to be one of some Muslim man's forty virgins, if they did this? One man's Heaven is another woman's Hell. I believe that is a large 
The brief letter did not mention the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, which rested on erroneous claims of weapons of mass destruction and arguably contributed to its current instability, but stresses instead the country's right to self-defence in the face of this new threat. Just as in Washington, the president has ducked the trickier task of winning a resolution for war in favour of a more palatable vote to contain the Islamic State through indirect means.
America is not the World's Police. That is the thought and/or wish of the conservative mindset. Let NATO handle it. We cannot afford to fight their Wars. The huge War for Profit Machine that Bush built is still War Mongering. 
Much of the daily fighting in Kobani is caught on camera, where TV crews and photographers on the Turkish side of the border have captivated the world's attention with searing pictures of refugees, black plumes of smoke from explosions, and the sounds of firefights on the city's streets. In video after video, refugees just across the border can be seen and heard cheering as U.S. airstrikes pound the extremists.
The Kurdish warrior-king Saladin put an end to the Crusades by capturing an entire army of Crusaders. He freed all of them and guaranteed future safe passage to any who wanted to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem-as long as they came in peace. If any wished to make war, he said, thy would be slaughtered. The Crusaders honored the agreement. There is a monument to Saladin in Westminster Cathedral.
Ten Iraqi peshmerga fighters entered a northern Syrian border town, crossing over from Turkey on Thursday, the first from among a group of 150 Kurdish troops on their way into the embattled Kobani, activists said. The development followed heavy overnight clashes as Islamic State fighters unsuccessfully tried to capture 
If your diary covers an election or elected official, use election tags, which are generally the state abbreviation followed by the office. CA-01 is the first district House seat. CA-Sen covers both senate races. NY-GOV covers the New York governor's race. Tags do not compound: that is, "education reform" is a completely different tag from "education". A tag like "reform" alone is probably not meaningful.
At the close of the Labour party conference in Manchester, Miliband had convened an emergency meeting of Labour's cabinet to endorse military action in Iraq so providing Cameron the assurance he needed that he will win 
With each American bombings, we created more anti-American feelings in the entire Muslim world. The pro-war talking heads and the on-the-payroll generals are already supporting American ground troops, with the story that air attacks are insufficient to do the job. Of course they are promising us that it will only be a few thousands ground troops. I have seen this mission creep before.
In this effort, we do not act alone. Nor do we intend to send U.S. troops to occupy foreign lands. Instead, we will support Iraqis and Syrians fighting to reclaim their communities. We will use our military might in a campaign of air strikes to roll back 
But on Saturday and Sunday the Kurdish defenses were still holding and from the border both days appeared quieter. U.S. warplanes attacked just five times on Saturday morning—a sandstorm obscuring much of the town may have contributed 
This just really reminds me how ticked I am at Turkey for sitting on the sidelines either hoping for, or not caring about a slaughter in Kobane. Obama needs to tell the Turks to get the out of NATO and to forget about EU Membership if they are not willing to help. We need to press the Obama admin & our Congresspeople to give no-strings attached material support to these progressive brethren in Rojava.
But Turkey is not expected to send troops or aid to the Kurdish fighters who are defending Kobani due to a decades-long dispute it has waged against a Kurdish guerrilla group linked to the city's defenders. The fighters in Kobani are affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which both Turkey and the U.S. consider a terrorist organization. Associated Press writers Sameer N. Yacoub in Baghdad and Desmond Butler in Istanbul contributed to this report.
Islamic State-controlled territory in the city and province of Raqqa was hit in the air strikes on Tuesday. He said Islamic State forces had advanced to within 8 km (5 miles) from the southern periphery of Kobani, which is also known as Ayn al-Arab - closer than they had been at any stage. Saudi Arabia has confirmed that it participated in the US-led campaign and that the son of kingdom's crown prince was one of the pilots.
The Qur'an and the Hadiths reflect the society in which they were developed - 7th century Arabia. Of course it was normal to rape women taken in war, and the rules for that sort of rape were established. 
n December of 2009, Ferhan Türk was arrested along with multiple other Kurdish mayors and politicians from Southeast Turkey. He is being detained for supposed involvement in the Kurdish Communities Union, an organization the government alleges 
That's why we won't support an independent Kurdistan. If they were capitalists we could turn into a client state, we would be supporting them. There is a strong racial component to the persecution of the Kurds by the Arab states and even Turkey. The Turks are also Indo-European but are a completely distinct group from the Kurds. Supporting the Kurds may be preferable to the alternatives, but they are far from enlightened if they continue this horrific practice.
You're mistaken. Libertarian socialism (anarchism) has been around a long, long time. The word libertarian predates the American usage among the right wing. It was originally used by anti-statist socialists. 
This is going to sound extremely cold to most people, but the reality is that it's not highly different in western culture, it's just slightly differently arranged: for most of western history, excess male population was decreased by forcing them into military service in standing armies and occasional abberations such as the crusades. Excess female population was decreased by working women to death and holding them culpable for a range of sins the penance for which took from them whatever wealth or property they might have and transferred it to the over-arching authority.
hand over chunks of their countries to form a country just for the Jews (Israel). And then Israel "occupied" the remaining bits of Palestine for another 40 years or so, and are still lobbing mortar 
As an international community, we must meet this challenge with a focus on four areas. First, the terrorist group known as ISIL must be degraded, and ultimately destroyed. No God condones this terror. No grievance justifies these actions. There 
However, two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss classified assessments, said there was no particular location or target that had come to the attention of US intelligence agencies. UAE jets have been involved 
Using bomber, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft, U.S. forces conducted five airstrikes south of Kobani in Syria yesterday and today, damaging an ISIL training camp and destroying an ISIL support building and two ISIL vehicles. The strikes also hit a small ISIL unit and a large ISIL unit, officials said. It's a good, well paved two lane road, good for heavy trucks, semi's, even tank transporters.
Finally this resolution recognizes that there is no military solution to the problem of misguided individuals seeking to join terrorist organizations. The US ambassador to the UN says the opening business” included passage 
