"Kurds celebrate ousting Islamic State fighters from Kobani" Topic
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| Tango01 | 26 Jan 2015 11:01 p.m. PST |
"Jubilant Kurdish fighters ousted Islamic State militants from the key Syrian border town of Kobani on Monday after a four-month battle – a significant victory for both the Kurds and the U.S.-led coalition. The Kurds raised their flag on a hill that once flew the Islamic State group's black banner. On Kobani's war-ravaged streets, gunmen fired in the air in celebration, male and female fighters embraced, and troops danced in their baggy uniforms. The failure to capture Kobani was a major blow to the extremists whose hopes for an easy victory dissolved into a costly siege under withering airstrikes by coalition forces and an assault by the Kurdish militia…"
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| Lion in the Stars | 27 Jan 2015 11:04 a.m. PST |
I hope so, Armand, though the Iraqis with US air support did manage to blast the DAESHbags off of a dam in Iraq, I think the DAESHbags took it back later. If the Kurds can hold Irbil against DAEHSbag counterattacks, then I'm willing to call it a victory. |
 Legion 4   | 27 Jan 2015 11:21 a.m. PST |
I hope so too … but still anything could happen at this time, IMO … |
| Tango01 | 27 Jan 2015 11:47 a.m. PST |
Battles continue outside Syria's Kobani after Kurds claim victory "Kurdish forces battled Islamic State fighters outside Kobani on Tuesday, a monitoring group said, a day after Kurds said they had taken full control of the northern Syrian town following a four-month battle. Known as Ayn al-Arab in Arabic, the mainly Kurdish town close to the Turkish border has become a focal point in the international fight against Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that has spread across Syria and Iraq. There were clashes to the southeast and southwest of Kobani, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, although it added the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) had managed to recapture a village outside the town…"
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| Mako11 | 27 Jan 2015 5:42 p.m. PST |
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| Only Warlock | 27 Jan 2015 5:52 p.m. PST |
I say the Kurds have earned their own state. Screw the Turks, Persians, and Iraqis. |
| EJNashIII | 27 Jan 2015 7:40 p.m. PST |
Oh, the Kurds will screw the Turks in time. That you can be sure of. |
| Tango01 | 27 Jan 2015 11:29 p.m. PST |
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