Kurdish YPG fighter near Kobani in northern Syria
Posted on 09/23/2014 9:40:37 AM PDT by GonzoII
Kurdish YPG fighter near Kobani in northern Syria
BasNews, Qamishlo
The People’s Protection Unit (YPG) has announced statistics from this week’s clashes with Islamic State militants in Kobani, in Syrian Kurdistan.
The YPG’s press unit have revealed that is has killed 232 IS militants, in this past week’s clash in northern Syria.
“32 YPG and Women’s Protection Unit (YPJ)fighters have also been killed,” the statistics show.
“We have taken control of a huge amount of IS’s heavy and medium weaponry, and we have destroyed IS tanks and vehicles,” continued the report.
“In the eastern and southern Kobani, we are still involved in heavy fighting with IS militants, who started the attack on Kobani.”
“The YPG has prevented IS from advancing further in Kobani and halted their attacks,” stated the Reuters news agency.
In the past week, IS militants has attacked Kurdish villages and towns near Kobani in northern Syrian and due to extremist threats, thousands of Kobani residents have fled to the Turkish border.
we should be helping arm these folks, not FSA
Nice start!!!
[ we should be helping arm these folks, not FSA ]
Even if they are “bad” they are no where near as worse than ISIS/ISIL/Yabba Dabba Doo....
OK there are at last count about 31000 ISIS and they got 232, but the influx of new ISIS joiners is large, so what’s the percentage destroyed? HMMMM....time to pick up the pace.
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