In Kobane apparently is the rise of jihadist militia “Islamic State” stopped for now: Local agencies report that Kurdish fighters had pushed back the IS-troops – even using the U.S. air attacks.
In fierce fighting Kurdish units in the northern Syrian enclave Kobane have Islamic State (IS) further pushed back the terrorist militia, also thanks to attacks by the U.S. Air Force.
According to the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human near the so-called People’s Rights Protection Units (YPG) captured on Thursday back more roads in the West Situated on the border with Turkey map. About a third Kobanes to be located even under IS-control, a week ago was about 40 percent of the speech.
The spokesman for the Department of Defense, John Kirby, said the air strikes were “very accurate”. The security situation in Kobane but was more precarious. It seems that the IS-advance had been slowed. The United States knew that they had the jihadists inflicted damage. In Iraq, however, the Sunni extremists set according to data from the United States despite ever more violent air attacks of the international coalition continued their conquest.
The head of the human rights observers, Rami Abd al-Rahman, told the news agency dpa, Kurdish fighters had launched an offensive in the southwest Kobanes to drive IS in the area. Even further east, in the region which also Syrian-Turkish border town of Ras al-Ain, the jihadists have suffered losses. According to Abd al-Rahman at a Kurdish attack killed 20 extremists. However, in an air strike, according to activists and local media also Kurds were accidentally killed.
According to the Iraqi-Kurdish news site Rudaw least six Kurdish fighters died. Idris Nassan, a spokesman for Foreign Affairs in Kobane, this confirmed the dpa. A civilian was killed, he added. “The Allied planes had targeted on IS-fighter”, Nassan said. The jihadists have wanted in on Wednesday night in a building shelter. But in the house several elderly Kurdish women have been hiding.
The Pentagon reports of slain Kurds initially not confirmed. “We have no evidence that Kurdish fighters were killed in an air raid of the alliance,” said a spokesman for the Central Command in Tampa (Florida) news agency dpa. The reports would but taken very seriously and thoroughly tested.
600 dead so far in Kobane
In total, more than 600 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in the fight for Kobane last month killed. On the part of the Kurdish YPG were killed and 258 fighters in the ranks of the IS 374 jihadists. The IS-militia in early September had their advance on Kobane (Arabic: Ain al-Arab) started.
The international terrorist attacks against the militia had initially begun on August 8 in Iraq and were later extended to Syria. The international use now bears the official name of operation “Inherent Resolve”, translated as “Natural determination”.
On Thursday was the first time Danish F16 Flier in use. In Kobane after U.S. data, among other 19 buildings, two command posts, three positions of snipers, an assembly and a heavy machine gun of the IS were taken.
The federal government wants to punish sharper in the fight against the financing of such groupings IS. According to media information, a bill to be submitted until the end of the year.
The President of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, Massoud Barzani, called for more Western aid for the Kurds, mainly in the form of heavy and advanced weapons systems. “We need tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers and anti-tank missiles”. In northern Iraq, fighting on the ground mainly Kurdish Peshmerga Army against the IS, the Syrian Kobane there are allied with the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK people protection units YPG.
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