MESOP : TODAY’S ACTUAL KOBANE PICTURES (PHOTO-GALLERY) – By Vaagher Saadullah
On the Border Near Kobani, a Front Row Seat to War / Refugees & hopeful fighters gather in Turkey as bombs
fall (CLICK FOR PICTURES)
Kurds shield their eyes as they gaze up into the sky at jets streaking overhead. It’s Oct. 14. We’re in southern Turkey just two kilometers from the Syrian border town of Kobani, where U.S. and allied warplanes are bombing Islamic State forces that have surrounded a small group of Syrian-Kurdish YPG fighters struggling to defend the town. Mahmood Gawro, 41, goes to the border every day with his wife and two children to watch the battle for Kobani unfold. Gawro and his family are from Kobani. They fled on Oct. 2 and took shelter in the Turkish town of Suruc.
MESOP : NUR MIT HILFE DER US KOALITION KONNTE KOBANE ERFOLGREICH VERTEIDIGT WERDEN
Koalition gegen IS : Erste Erfolge durch koordinierte Angriffe
FAZ – 19-10-2014 – Seit einigen Tagen versuchen die internationale Allianz und die Kurden, ihre Strategie in der Verteidigung der Stadt Kobane besser zu koordinieren. Jetzt zeigten sich erste Erfolge.Die Terrormiliz Islamischer Staat (IS) verliert in der umkämpften syrischen Kurdenstadt Kobane weiter an Boden. Koordinierte Angriffe der kurdischen Volksschutzeinheiten (YPG) und der internationalen Allianz gegen den IS drängten die IS-Kämpfer zurück, berichtete die syrische Beobachtungsstelle für Menschenrechte am Samstag.
MESOP Syria Daily: Has the Islamic State Been Defeated in Kobane?
By Scott Lucas October 18, 2014 07:16 – There are conflicting reports on Saturday morning over whether the Islamic State has been fully ejected from the Kurdish center of Kobane in northern Syria, after almost two weeks of fighting inside the town. The New York Times is a platform for the optimists, with Kurds, Americans, and Syrian insurgents all speaking of heavy losses for the Islamic State as it lost territory.Following the assertion on Friday by a Kurdish official that the Islamic State was out of Kobane, though still fighting on the eastern outskirts, a Syrian insurgent commander on the western front said:
ISIS is retreating and we are advancing. Airstrikes destroyed most of their heavy weapons. Those who are left in the city center don’t have a way out….The battle will be ending soon.US spokesman General Lloyd Austin repeated claims of hundreds of jihadists killed by American-led airstrikes:
MESOP Ibrahim Biro Interview – Syrian Kurds seeking unity in face of ISIS threat
IF VAGUE SPECULATIONS MEET WITH VAGUE SPECULATIONS
Ibrahim Biro: The Americans know that the current armed force in Rojava has been fighting the Syrian opposition, and they don’t like that. They mean to bring together the Syrian opposition. But they also know that Syrian Kurdistan is different. So they said that in order to receive support, the Kurdish groups have to work together.
By RUDAW – 18-10-2014 – In this interview with Rudaw, Ibrahim Biro, secretary-general of the Union Kurdish Party in Syria says that a meeting currently going on in Duhok between different groups is to turn a new page and reach an agreement on the administration and defense of Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava). Biro says that the Islamic State (IS) is a powerful force and that only by working together Syrian Kurds can overcome that threat. The international coalition, says Biro, has also set a condition that Kurdish groups in Rojava must work together in order to qualify for any military assistance.
MESOP FLASH : Iranian Basij general killed in Aleppo / CLICK FOR PICS & WATCH VIDEO
MESOP : IRANIAN DIRECT INTERVENTION ON SYRIAN SOIL / NO WESTERN LEFTWING REACTION AT ALL
MESOP FACING KOBANE – LATEST DEVELOPMENTS – Better mood in Syrian Kurdistan’s Kobani
October 17, 2014 – AFP – SURUC, Turkey’s Kurdish region,— It’s hardly the moment to plan a victory parade — but the mood has changed.
There have been “encouraging” signs in recent days in the battle over the Syrian border town of Kobani, with US air strikes slowing the advance of Islamic State jihadists, a top US commander said Friday. General Lloyd Austin, in charge of the US-led air war against the IS group, said events in Kobani have been “encouraging” but acknowledged it was still “highly possible” the town could fall to the extremists.
MESOP : INSIDE KOBANE THIS MORNING
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MESOP : NEW HEROES !? – NOT WITHOUT THE AIRSTRIKES
Kurdish official: ISIS and their flag gone from Kobane / With support from US air strikes, the YPG held the town and eventually managed to turn the tide against the IS: Omar Alush, co-chair of the TEV-DEM movement in Kobane
By RUDAW 17-10-2014 – KOBANE—Islamist militants have been pushed out of Kobane and fighters of the Peoples Protection Units (YPG) are now in control of the town, a Kurdish official in Kobane told Rudaw. “There is no ISIS in Kobane now,” said Omar Alush, co-chair of the TEV-DEM movement in Kobane. Alush said that following the recent air strikes on positions of the Islamic State (IS) militants in Kobane, the YPG managed to drive the rest of the jihadis out of town and that they are now in control.
MESOP TODAY’S COMMENTARY : Let Them Eat Bombs – The Cost of Ignoring Syria’s Humanitarian Crisis
by: ARON LUND – OCTOBER 17, 2014 – Winter is coming, and the humanitarian situation in Syria has never been so dire, with more than 3 million refugees abroad and some 6.5 million internally displaced—nearly half of the country’s population.According to UN figures, more than 10 million Syrians now need outside aid to survive, nearly half of them stuck in areas under siege or otherwise hard to access. The power infrastructure and agricultural sector are breaking down due to the strains of war and a lack of upkeep. Across Syria, the prices of fuel, food, and everyday goods are skyrocketing due to systemic failures in the power supply structure, war, and bombings. Millions of Syrians are left to face the winter cold in appalling conditions, at a time when wealthy Western and Arab nations spend billions on counterterrorism and renewed rebel training missions.
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