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Showing posts with label Kobani. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kobani. Show all posts
Friday, November 14, 2014
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
ISIS release propaganda video of UK hostage
Islamist militants known as ISIL have released a video showing British hostage John Cantlie walking around what he says are the ruins of the besieged Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobani.
In an apparently scripted “report” Cantlie says the battle for the town “is nearly over” and the militants are “mopping up now”.
Kobani has witnessed intense fighting between Kurdish militias and ISIL for more than a month.
The video which is unverified and taken off social media appears to be one of a series featuring the 43-year-old journalist, who was seized in late 2012.
Latest verified footage from Kobani shows US-led airstrikes on ISIL positions.
On Monday there were heavy clashes and sporadic exchanges of mortar fire in the town.
A deployment of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters which Turkey said could cross its border into Syria to help defend Kobani has not yet arrived.
In an apparently scripted “report” Cantlie says the battle for the town “is nearly over” and the militants are “mopping up now”.
Kobani has witnessed intense fighting between Kurdish militias and ISIL for more than a month.
The video which is unverified and taken off social media appears to be one of a series featuring the 43-year-old journalist, who was seized in late 2012.
Latest verified footage from Kobani shows US-led airstrikes on ISIL positions.
On Monday there were heavy clashes and sporadic exchanges of mortar fire in the town.
A deployment of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters which Turkey said could cross its border into Syria to help defend Kobani has not yet arrived.
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=89d_1414481401#BhhUqiL3WVoqPSPK.99
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Kurds Killed by ISIS (Graphic)
Since Wednesday, ISIS militants appear to have gained the upper hand in Syria’s northern Kurdish murtadin region of Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, overrunning 21 Kurdish villages in just 24h. It said there were casualties on both sides, but that Kurdish forces were fleeing their villages for fear that ISIS fighters.
-2 kurdish women fighters were also killed in the fight (they were braver than marins) . we can't show their faces cause THEY ARE WOMEN and because there a lot of perverts in the western countries
-you can also see a man looking like harry potter's teacher
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b24_1411174865#gsaeerORHSegjSZf.99
Sunday, October 12, 2014
War against Isis: US strategy in tatters as militants march on
World View: American-led air attacks are failing. Jihadis are close to taking Kobani, in Syria – and in Iraq western Baghdad is now under serious threat.
The US-led air attacks launched against Islamic State (also known as Isis) on 8 August in Iraq and 23 September in Syria have not worked. President Obama's plan to "degrade and destroy" Islamic State has not even begun to achieve success. In both Syria and Iraq, Isis is expanding its control rather than contracting.
Isis reinforcements have been rushing towards Kobani in the past few days to ensure that they win a decisive victory over the Syrian Kurdish town's remaining defenders. The group is willing to take heavy casualties in street fighting and from air attacks in order to add to the string of victories it has won in the four months since its forces captured Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq, on 10 June. Part of the strength of the fundamentalist movement is a sense that there is something inevitable and divinely inspired about its victories, whether it is against superior numbers in Mosul or US airpower at Kobani.
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Saturday, October 11, 2014
Kobane - Too little, Too Late? (Maps)
Ethnic Kurds have been protesting on border towns to Syria in Turkey against the IS assault on Kobane
Fighters from the so-called Islamic state (IS) have reportedly entered the eastern part of the Kurdish town of Kobane.
They have effectively surrounded the town - which sits hard up against the Syrian-Turkish border - from three sides and are firing into it from higher ground.
If Kobane falls it will be a serious set-back for the Kurds. But it will inevitably also raise fundamental questions about the scope and capacity of the US air campaign to combat IS, and about the diverse goals of the anti-IS coalition that the US has assembled.
Kobane, which is a small salient of land poking into Syrian territory, is in no sense an easy place to defend.
http://bbcnews.com/
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ISIS battles to encircle Syrian Kurds
Smoke rises over Kobane on Saturday as seen from the Turkish border
Gunfire and explosions can be heard from the Syrian border town of Kobane where Islamic State fighters are trying to encircle its Kurdish defenders.
The Kurds repulsed a pre-dawn attack and still control the town's border crossing point with Turkey.
The crossing point is a vital supply and exit route, correspondents say.
In Iraq, officials in Anbar province reportedly made an urgent appeal for military help against IS, warning the region could be overrrun.
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UN:housands likely to be massacred if jihadists take Kobani
Turkey agrees to support the trainning and equipping of moderate opposition groups in Syria; US says airstrikes may not be enough to help Kobani.
Reuters
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Thousands of people most likely will be massacred if Kobani falls to Islamic State fighters, a UN envoy said on Friday, asmilitants fought deeper into the besieged Syrian Kurdish town in full view of Turkish tanks that have done nothing to intervene.
"If this falls, the 700, plus perhaps the 12,000 people, apart from the fighters, will be most likely massacred," de Mistura said. The United Nations believes 700 mainly elderly civilians are trapped in the town itself and 12,000 have left the center but not made it across the border into Turkey
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Devastation in Kobani as Battle Rages - VIDEO
ISIL is said to control around half of the town including key buildings in the security quarter. The insurgents could be seen moving around the northeast to complete their encirclement.
US-led airstrikes have intensified in recent days, but the White House admits that air strikes alone are not going to save Kobani.
Under pressure to act, Turkey has agreed to train and arm moderate Syrian opposition groups following talks with Washington.
Turkish tanks remain poised on the border, Ankara says any intervention hinges on support from the international community.
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7e0_1413016200#xYvZUrrLlTZt46vX.99
Friday, October 10, 2014
KOBANI: Islamic State beheads 3 female fighters
One blows herself up taking several Islamic State fighters with her ***GRAPHIC***
A couple of days ago I posted about a Syrian Kurdish female combatant who shot herself with a last bullet during fighting with militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) so as not to be taken alive.
She was right.
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Tuesday, October 07, 2014
Monday, October 06, 2014
'A Terrible Slaughter Is Coming'
On the Turkish border, the world stands idly by as ISIS threatens a massacre in a Syrian town.
A cradle left behind by Syrian Kurdish refugees at the Turkish-Syrian border in late September (Murad Sezer/Reuters)
The theme of the week in the Syria conflict—that airstrikes are of only limited use in the struggle to degrade and destroy the Islamic State terror group—isabout to be underscored in terrible fashion in the besieged border town of Kobani, which is under sustained, and mainly unanswered, assault by as many as 9,000 ISIS terrorists armed with tanks and rocket launchers.
I just got off the phone with a desperate-sounding Kurdish intelligence official, Rooz Bahjat, who said he fears that Kobani could fall to ISIS within the next 24 hours. If it does, he predicts that ISIS will murder thousands in the city, which is crammed with refugees—Kurdish, Turkmen, Christian, and Arab—from other parts of the Syrian charnel house. As many as 50,000 civilians remain in the town, Bahjat said.
"A terrible slaughter is coming. If they take the city, we should expect to have 5,000 dead within 24 or 36 hours," he told me. "It will be worse than Sinjar," the site of a recent ISIS massacre that helped prompt President Obama to fight ISIS. There have been reports of airstrikes on ISIS vehicles, but so far, Bahjat said that these strikes have been modest in scope and notably ineffective.
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2,000 evacuated as ISIS flag raised on outskirts of Kobani, Syria
The black Islamic State flag has been raised over a building on the outskirts of a strategic town of Kobani on the Syrian-Kurdish border, according to various sources. However, Kurds defending the border town say that the city has not yet fallen.
Attacks in the town intensified on Sunday when Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS or ISIL) militants besieged the city.
The black flag was seen at the top of a four story building, according to the images shot from Turkey. A Turkish military officer who preferred to remain anonymous confirmed to Reuters that the flag had been that of the Islamists.
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The black flag was seen at the top of a four story building, according to the images shot from Turkey. A Turkish military officer who preferred to remain anonymous confirmed to Reuters that the flag had been that of the Islamists.
Saturday, October 04, 2014
Despite allied airstrikes, Islamic State maintains siege on Syrian border town
Reuters
MURSITPINAR/BEIRUT - Islamic State forces shelled the Syrian border town of Kobani on Saturday and its Kurdish defenders said they were expecting a new assault to try to capture it.
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