Posted on 11/01/2014 7:03:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported today that at least 100 Islamic State fighters have been killed during just three days of fighting in and around the Kurdish city of Kobane.
The monitoring group said that the deaths bring the current number of ISIS fighters killed in the conflict there to 576 since September 16.
“Over the last three days, at least 100 members of ISIS and its religious police have been killed… in Kobani and its surroundings,” the Observatory said in a statement Saturday.
The men killed were reportedly reinforcements brought from Aleppo and ISIS’s de-facto capital Raqqa, as the group’s offensive has slowed down due to the fierce fighting on behalf of the Kurdish resistance, aided by U.S.-led airstrikes.
On Friday, the Observatory reported that 15 fighters from the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) were killed in clashes with ISIS.
In total, 958 people have been killed on the fight for Kobane, with 576 belonging to ISIS and 361 to YPG and its Free Syrian Army allies. Twenty-one civilians were also among the dead.
On Thursday, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel admitted to reporters that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad “derives some benefit” from strikes against ISIS, which are allowing regime forces to focus their firepower on other rebel groups.
As Hagel has emerged as a leading critic of President Obama’s Syria strategy, “expressing concern about the overall Syria strategy,” a recent report for the Center for Strategic and International Studies regional security expert Anthony H. Cordesman described the results of the operation against ISIS as “a strategic mess.”
“The Assad forces are using the U.S. and allied campaign against the Islamic State to make a massive step up in air attacks on other rebels,” he wrote.
While the Obama strategy may be highly criticized and not to everyone’s taste, the Kurdish rebel forces in Kobane, and other cities and towns have dealt a heavy blow to ISIS in recent days, and as long as that success continues, the Islamic State won’t be overtaking any more territory in the area for the time being.
Ahhhhh.....a little good news on this Saturday night.
And in the same time frame muslim women around the world gave birth to 100,000 more jihadis.
Killing 100 in 3 days is probably not even keeping up.
Go Kurds! hmmm baby!
“The Assad forces are using the U.S. and allied campaign against the Islamic State to make a massive step up in air attacks on other rebels,” he wrote.
Assad is pretty smart.
Next, keep sending them in ISIS
And, of course, the 'overall Syria strategy of the Obama regime has been to turn Syria over to Islamic militants of one flavor or another.
I have always admired the Kurds.
ISIS was doing what it was supposed to do before it jumped the rails and started giving Obama bad PR. So they are trying to spank them to get them back into line. They don’t want to defeat them, they want to harness them.
Wow.
That's about 10% of the new volunteers that ISIS gets each month.
Do the math.
I still don't understand how ISIS can make propaganda-recruiting videos showing hundreds of black Pijama clad rabid koranimals waving their weapons in their Toyota pickups out in the open countryside or in the middle of large cities.
Target rich environment, yet drones and other intelligence fails to identify and locate them. 100 casualties would seem possible in a single strike.
Assuming the military leaders are allowed to do their jobs.
ALL THE WAY TO RAQQA!
My friend in Israel told me in 2003 the Kurds and Mossad worked behind the scenes to get Saddam Hussein captured.
I imagine their behind the scenes alliance has continued.
The only good Islamist is a dead Islamist.
Hopefully the were all killed by Kurdish women so they don’t get their 72 virgins.
Hope they all like their 72 raisins.
I’m sure Otrama’s pissed.
What will the Kurds do when they catch an ISIS fighter, alive?
Good deal.
“That’s about 10% of the new volunteers that ISIS gets each month.”
Yes, it does seem low. But I think in history - 10% is a good number. To “decimate” the enemy is 10% dead (or maybe its total casualties). Not like in the movies perhaps - but its okay.
Especially when our airstrikes are no doubt more for show than anything else. I recall one newscast where it said something like “The U.S. launched 8 airstrikes over the weekend, with several armored vehicles hit, and confirmed 3 ISIS casualties.”
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