Posted on 10/03/2014 7:59:18 PM PDT by GonzoII
BEIRUT // Kurds battled ISIL fighters on Friday for a town along the border with Turkey, as the Turkish prime minister said his country will prevent the fall of Kobani.
The Kurdish town and its surrounding have been under attack since mid-September, with militants capturing dozens of nearby villages. The assault, which has forced some 160,000 Syrians to flee, has left the Kurdish fighters scrambling to repel the militants’ advance into the outskirts of Kobani, also known as Ain Al Arab.
Meanwhile, aircraft from Saudi Arabia and the UAE joined US warplanes in a new wave of bombing raids Friday against ISIL in Syria.
Coalition fighter jets and drones conducted six strikes in Syria on Thursday and Friday, hitting militant tanks, oil refineries and a training camp, the US military said.
US aircraft also conducted three air raids in Iraq over the past 24 hours, including two north-east of Fallujah, US Central Command said.
Iraqi officials said that an Iraqi military attack helicopter was shot down by ISIL militants in the country’s north. The Mi-35 helicopter was brought down on Friday by a rocket launcher between the towns of Beiji and Al Senniyah in northern Iraq. The helicopter’s pilot and co-pilot were killed.
Also on Friday, Canada announced plans to launch airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq following a US request, Canada’s prime minister said.
The combat mission must be voted on in parliament but prime minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has the majority of seats so it is expected to pass.
In Syria, one coalition air strike south of Al Hasakah destroyed an ISIL garrison, another strike south-east of Deir Ezzor destroyed two tanks, two raids north of Raqqa struck two small-scale oil refineries and a “training camp,” and a bombing run north-east of Aleppo hit an ISIL building, Centcom...
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Burning question: is it ISIS or ISIL? Not that it really matters in the larger scheme of things, just curious.
IS IS ISIL
Then why do we continually see the interchange of these in the news? Does this raghead group have two names?
ISIS is "JV" because it is the little league.
Neither. JV.
why our A-10’s are not there unzipping every ISIS thing that moves I cannot understand .
Turkey has given the official green light . A-10’s should be lifting off to hit ISIS around Kobani as I write this .
That they are not is a further indictment of the clueless Obama regime , which needs to be removed at the soonest possible moment by the most expedient means available .
“...Kurdish defence minister of Kobani region, said ISIL fighters were trying to advance from the east, west and south-east of Kobani.... and called on the US-led coalition “to hit the tanks instead of bases.”...”
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Well jeez, that might actually have an effect on ISIS instead of the handful of pinprick strikes that Obama approved on empty buildings and an occasional pick-up truck. Obama wants to give the impression of doing something substantial against ISIS and does NOT want to actually do anything substantial to help our friends the Kurds.
It’s ISIL if you want to send a message to the Muslim world that Israel should be annihilated. That’s why Obola calls it ISIL. (Islamic State in Syria and the Levant)
From what I hear, Obola promised arms to the Kurds, and has sent them nothing.
The Iraqi Kurds have received weapons from the US as well as from other countries. As of right now The US will not send weapons to the Syrian Kurds because they are labeled as a terrorist group.
American and French Weapons Reach Peshmerga Forces
I watched two news reports on the deliveries. They were thrilled to have 50 calibers with armored piercing and tracer rounds. They said they were superior to the Russian weapons they have now. Imagine, they had been doing very well with their old weapons so it can only get better for them. And to think the 50 cal is such a basic weapon for NATO or it used to be any way.
I think that depends on what the meaning of IS IS.
lol.
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