Kobani is facing the fiercest and most barbaric attack in its history, said official Mohammed Saleh Muslim, head of Syrias powerful Kurdish Democratic Union. The groups members dominate the Syrian Kurdish group known as the YPK, which is fighting the Islamic State militants. Kobani calls on all those who defend humane and democratic values ... to stand by Kobani and support it immediately. The coming hours are decisive, he said. On Friday, the president of Iraqs largely autonomous Kurdish region, Masoud Barzani, warned that the militant groups attacks on the Kobani area threaten the whole entirety of the Kurdish nation. The battle over Kobani is part of a long-running fight between the Islamic State group and Syrias Kurds that has raged across a band of Syrian territory stretching along the Turkish border from the north to the far northeast, where large numbers of Kurds live. The clashes are one aspect of Syrias broader civil war – a multilayered conflict that the UN says has killed more than 190,000, The YPK is viewed with suspicion by many Syrian rebels and their Western supporters because of perceived links to President Bashar Assads government. That may be changing, however, as Kurdish fighters battle alongside some Syrian rebel groups against the Islamic State in northern and eastern Syria. Nato member Turkey is wary of the group, which it believes is affiliated with the Kurdish PKK movement, a Kurdish movement that has waged a long and bloody insurgency in southeast Turkey. world.einnews/article/224990904/ewFMicxey0udKy2T?continued=1
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 03:32:51 +0000
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