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Slow progress but Kobane-Cezire link up on the cards

BEIRUT – Syrian Kurds have reportedly received approval from the US-led coalition fighting ISIS to expand military operations in a bid to link two of their de-facto autonomous cantons.

In recent months, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) have been rolling back ISIS in the northeastern Hasakeh region, where the Kurds established the Cezire canton in 2014, as well as Kobane, where they also maintain a self-administered region.

The Kurds’ current frontlines in both regions are separated by approximately 90 kilometers of ISIS-held territory stretching eastward from Kobane toward the outskirts of Hasakeh’s Ras al-Ayn.

A Kurdish official said Monday that “there is an agreement between the joint forces [Kurdish and Free Syrian Army] fighting in Kobane and the coalition that support will continue until the Kobane-Cezire road is opened.”

Kurdish fighters have been given a “greenlight from the coalition in that respect,” Al-Akhbar quoted Kurdish Front Brigade spokesperson Ahmad Hasso as saying.

The paper also quoted an unnamed Kurdish field source as saying that “the opening of the Kobane-Cezire road is now a matter of time, as all the necessary procedures have been taken, in stages, to achieve that goal.”
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Going back to that map above from the other day - ISIS have 10-15% of the population of Syria in their vast empty deserts. The Kurds have the same figure without all the air.
 
An interesting read on Dawronoye and the Beth Nahrain region:

The Revolutionaries of Bethnahrin

In northeastern Syria, “Christian militias” (as they are often termed) are now battling the Islamic State alongside Kurdish forces. However, these groups did not simply emerge spontaneously as a response to a security threat: they are the latest incarnations of the Dawronoye movement, which first appeared on the European and Middle Eastern political scenes twenty years ago. While they are indeed Christian, their fight is not primarily for their faith, but for their nation — which is neither Syria nor Kurdistan. In their native tongue—a contemporary descendant of the Aramaic language spoken by Jesus—they call their people Suryoye (Syriacs) and their homeland Bethnahrin (Mesopotamia).
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Meanwhile, the PKK movement has come to embrace a vision of a multicultural mosaic within a decentralized democratic system. While sharing some overarching political structures, different communities should be encouraged to organize their own grassroots-level structures, and manage their own affairs to the greatest extent possible. In other words, the respective projects of Dawronoye and the PKK coincide perfectly in Syria.

So, what are the chances that Dawronoye can garner popular support for its project? After all, these secular, nationalist revolutionaries represent a complete inversion of their community’s tendency to remain politically passive and subservient while turning to religion for consolation.

“The Kurds are one step ahead of us, but if you look at what the Syriacs were like before and what they are like now, I think we have made great progress,” Jacob says. “This struggle will continue, because we have cultivated a thought among our people that we have to fight to survive, we have to fight to be free, we have to fight for our children’s future and not give up.”
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TomUS said:
I'm not saying it's a quick solution but it seems an obvious necessity. And since Turkey is already backing ISIS, to hell with them.
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It's not part of a long term solution, it will just add to an expanding problem IMO.
 
BTW Anyone else missing the military photos forum (sucided on may 1st) - esp the syrian/kurds thread on there (100 000+ posts of really really useful stuff from many perspectives) a lot of the good people from there are now here.
 
No stunning surprise to be fair...

A declassified secret US government document obtained by the conservative public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows that Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad.

The document reveals that in coordination with the Gulf states and Turkey, the West intentionally sponsored violent Islamist groups to destabilize Assad, and that these “supporting powers” desired the emergence of a “Salafist Principality” in Syria to “isolate the Syrian regime.”
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https://medium.com/insurge-intellig...west-saw-isis-as-strategic-asset-b99ad7a29092
 
Describing a loon right wing site as a "conservative public interest law firm," hmm. The document is availible to read and interpret if they can be bothered. Note the way the generic classification of what it actually is is quickly moved over in the Nafeez Ahmed piece, and in fact inflated into policy planning etc In fact, the reading offered is so disengenuous that it throws his whole new project into serious doubt.
 
butchersapron said:
ISIS seem to have done a load of killings in the roman theatre in palmyra - cue load of obvious articles about the modern audience and shakespeare quotes.
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How long before some gap year tosspot at the guardian starts calling them the world's first meta-terrorists?
 
this has gone apparently

Palmyra_Temple_of_Alaat_1.JPG
 
butchersapron said:
Ariha gone now. lol. Your boys having to jog back. Pathetic. What sort of idiot says lol about this?
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After reading your post... gotta laugh int'ya. I mean scissors fer chrisakes, why not throw in some glitter as well while you're at it... bit of construction paper, some tape an yer done. This is how the likes of you think, and it's fucking disgusting.
 
TomUS said:
Oh come on. Don't be so cynical. IS will need tourism revenue like any other country.
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There are no shortage of scumbags i'm sure who'd love to 'ironically' visit the caliphate, get a photo of themselves posing with an ISIS flag etc, look how many people 'ironically' visit north korea and how much money the regime makes out of it.
 
frogwoman said:
There are no shortage of scumbags i'm sure who'd love to 'ironically' visit the caliphate, get a photo of themselves posing with an ISIS flag etc, look how many people 'ironically' visit north korea and how much money the regime makes out of it.
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nah really? not the same kind of thing surely?
 
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