Turkish Kurds celebrate as a convoy of Peshmerga fighters cross into Turkey from Irag at the Habur border crossing on Oct. 29. Heavily kobane news armed Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were on their way by land and by air, joining militias defending the Syrian border town of Kobani.
An education official from Iraq's Niveneh province says that the youngsters are everywhere now, carrying weapons in the streets, manning checkpoints and watching people to make sure they are not smoking and that women are covering their faces. Little has been heard in recent days of the fight going on at the top of Mount Sinjar, but by all accounts the Yezidi fighters, backed by the Kurdish Peshmerga, are holding their own against the Islamic State.
For Turkish Kurds, the assault on Kobane is an attack on their own people. In Diyarbakir, the Kurdish capital, 150 miles to the northeast, young men took to the streets to protest against the Turkish government, which they accuse of helping Isis by giving it arms and allowing its fighters to cross the border. Neslihan Coban, 43, mourned her son Masum, 23, who was stabbed to death in the street while protesting against the siege of Kobane.
In Baghdad, an Iraqi security official said al-Kurdi was a member of Ansar al-Islam, a Sunni militant group with ties to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the late leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, who was active in the early 2000s. Al-Kurdi later joined the Islamic State group, the official said. The Iraqi official said al-Kurdi is also from Halabja and is wanted by Iraqi authorities. He refused to give the man's real name when pressed by The Associated Press.
I have to highlight one particular issue, Kobane. Why do we focus on Kobane but not Idlib, Hama, Homs or Iraq, 40 percent of which is under occupation? Why is no action being taken or no operations being conducted for these places but Kobane?” he asked, adding that Turkey had already welcomed 200,000 people from the border city. More demonstrations in support of Kobane are planned to take place outside the American embassy on Friday.
In a message released last Tuesday, Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned PKK leader, said that the peace process engaged at the start of 2013 between the PKK and the Turkish state had moved on to a new stage”, adding that he was now more optimistic”. This statement was made just after the anger of the Kurdish population of Turkey had exploded onto the scene, showing that the mass of the Kurds do not seem to share these optimistic views. Meanwhile, violent incidents involving Turkish state forces and Kurdish militants multiplied in recent weeks.
The artists had formed a human chain to show their solidarity for the Kurdish resistance in Kobane, but were rewarded with several of them being wounded and a 28 year old woman, Kader Ortakaya, being shot dead from an injury to the head. On Wednesday night, US jets struck at the so-called Khorasan Group, part of the Al Nusra Front, which it claims is not attacking the Assad regime but instead planning attacks in Europe and America.
The whole appalling situation has been fuelled by long standing grievances over corruption, war profiteering, the theft of weapons and supplies and increased public sympathy for ANF after they were bombed in the initial Coalition airstrikes in Syria against the Islamic State. US fighters and bombers have carried out 10 air strikes on Kobane since Wednesday, US Central Command said.
The gains of Rojava and the resistance in Kobanê have offered a potential bridge on the road of the Kurds for self-determination and, more generally, a possible reference point for reviving the struggle of workers and poor against the horrors of IS and of the dictatorial kobane news regimes in the Middle East. However, all the political complications and dangers of what has recently unfolded in this area need to be addressed, as a defeat of this struggle would, on the contrary, unleash further sufferings for the peoples of the region.
On Friday, ISIS released a short video showing the apparent beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning. In the same video, the group threatens the life of another hostage, American aid worker Peter Kassig. In the same video, the terror group threatened the life of an American aid worker. Since August, ISIS has beheaded American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and British aid worker David Haines.
An education official from Iraq's Niveneh province says that the youngsters are everywhere now, carrying weapons in the streets, manning checkpoints and watching people to make sure they are not smoking and that women are covering their faces. Little has been heard in recent days of the fight going on at the top of Mount Sinjar, but by all accounts the Yezidi fighters, backed by the Kurdish Peshmerga, are holding their own against the Islamic State.
For Turkish Kurds, the assault on Kobane is an attack on their own people. In Diyarbakir, the Kurdish capital, 150 miles to the northeast, young men took to the streets to protest against the Turkish government, which they accuse of helping Isis by giving it arms and allowing its fighters to cross the border. Neslihan Coban, 43, mourned her son Masum, 23, who was stabbed to death in the street while protesting against the siege of Kobane.
In Baghdad, an Iraqi security official said al-Kurdi was a member of Ansar al-Islam, a Sunni militant group with ties to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the late leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, who was active in the early 2000s. Al-Kurdi later joined the Islamic State group, the official said. The Iraqi official said al-Kurdi is also from Halabja and is wanted by Iraqi authorities. He refused to give the man's real name when pressed by The Associated Press.
Ayn Al-Arab is the town's official Arabic name. The locals, practically all of them ethnic Kurds, call it Kobane. It is defended not by the Syrian forces of President Bashar Al-Assad in faraway Damascus, which has left the Kurds of the north to their own devices, but by the People's Protection Units (YPG, after its Kurdish initials), a local militia. The Kurds, who number up to 30 million people living in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran, are said to be the largest ethnic group without a state of its own.
Opposition sources say that following the heavy casualties in Kobane from both the YPG and Coalition airstrikes, the Islamic State is constantly pulling more fighters from Raqqah, Aleppo, Hasakah and Deir Ez-Zour. Many of these 
Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobani, as seen from the Turkish-Syrian border near the southeastern town of Suruc, Oct. 6, 2014. Newly arrived Syrian Kurdish refugees stand at the back of a truck after crossing into Turkey from the Syrian border town Kobani, near the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc, Oct. 6, 2014. In Baghdad,ministers have finally approved MPs to spearhead the fight against IS after weeks of delay.
In Kobanê, notwithstanding their unquestionable bravery, the few thousand who stayed to defend the city have been fighting on their own. The bulk of the local population fled the city. But earlier the PYD could have appealed to the initiative of all workers, peasants and young people, 
