Kurdish-Syrian force launches move toward strategic Islamic.
By The Washington Post. Saturday, June 13, 2015, 10:10 p.m.. Updated 6 minutes ago. BEIRUT ��� A Kurdish-Syrian force is advancing toward one of the Islamic States most strategically vital possessions, capturing territory in the groups. The Kurdish-led force, backed by U.S. airstrikes, closed in from the south, east and west Saturday on the Syrian-Turkish border town of Tal Abiyad, a key Islamic State stronghold on which the militants rely for trade with the outside world and also the��.
Kurdish fighters in Syria on the march against IS militants.
BEIRUT (AP) ��� In contrast to the Iraqi armys failures, Kurdish fighters in Syria are on the march against the Islamic State group, capturing towns and villages in an oil-rich swath of the countrys northeast under the cover of U.S.-led airstrikes. As the Kurds close in on Tel Abyad, a major commercial center on the Turkish border, their advance highlights the decisive importance of combining airstrikes with the presence of a cohesive and motivated ally on the ground ��� so��.
Kurdish fighters in Syria on the march against Islamic State.
In contrast to the Iraqi armys failures, Kurdish fighters in Syria are on the march against the Islamic State group, capturing towns and villages in an oil-rich swath of the countrys northeast under the cover of U.S.-led airstrikes.. As the Kurds close in on Tel Abyad, a major commercial center on the Turkish border, their advance highlights the decisive importance of combining airstrikes with the presence of a cohesive and motivated ally on the ground ��� so clearly absent��.
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BEIRUT ��� The body of a U.S. citizen who died fighting with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State group in Syria was handed over on Thursday to his family at a Turkish border crossing, a Kurdish official said. Hundreds of. On Thursday, the Kurdish fighters continued advancing toward the northern Syrian town of Tal Abyad, capturing parts of the nearby town of Suluk, the Observatory and YPG said.. Posts. US Secretary of State John Kerry in Seattle, Washington.
The Cult of the Offensive: The Islamic State on Defense.
When the Iraqi security forces (ISF) and the Kurdish Peshmerga have committed resources to an attack they have dislodged the Islamic States defenses, particularly when Western airpower, intelligence, and planning have.. of the Islamic State groups coordinated operations, drawing together more than a dozen platoon-sized attack cells to mount assaults on the area held by Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) forces between the Syrian border and Makhmour.
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Turkeys parliament authorized the government on Thursday to order military action against Islamic State as the insurgents tightened their grip on a Syrian border town, sending thousands more Kurdish refugees into Turkey... Kurdish militia have captured a strategic border town on the route between the Islamic State-held cities of Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq as part of a three-front offensive launched to retake territory lost to the group over the summer, Kurdish��.
Thousands of Syrians flee into Turkey amid intense fighting.
The flow of refugees came as Syrian Kurdish fighters closed in on the outskirts of a strategic Islamic State-held town on the Turkish border, Kurdish officials and an activist group said, potentially cutting off a key supply line for��.
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The capture of al-Mabroukah could now allow the YPG to advance towards the Islamic State-held town of Tel Abyad at the border with Turkey. ���The goal is Tel Abyad,��� said Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Observatory.
ISIS Official Killed in US Raid in Syria, Pentagon Says
WASHINGTON ��� American Special Operations forces mounted a rare raid into eastern Syria early Saturday, killing a leader of the Islamic State and about a dozen militant fighters, as well as capturing his wife and freeing an 18-year-old Yazidi woman who.
Kurdish fighters advance on Syrian town held by Islamic.
The push on the eastern and southeastern edges of the town of Tel Hamees in Hassakeh province came after the Kurdish troops took dozens of nearby villages from the Islamic State extremists. The British-based. The Kurdish fighters, known as the Peoples Protection Units or YPG, have been making territorial gains since capturing the Syrian border town of Kobani from the Islamic State group last month following a several-month struggle. But elsewhere in the same��.
Officials: Iraqi city of Ramadi falls to Islamic State
The Islamic State posted a message claiming its fighters held the entire city of Ramadi, the AP reported. The message, posted on a militant website frequented by the group, said the Islamic State held the 8th Brigade army base, as well as tanks and.
Mines, Bombs Slow Iraqi Advance on Islamic State-Held Tikrit
Suicide bombings also aid the militants in weakening Iraqi forces and have been used extensively in its failed campaign for the Syrian border town of Kobani. Already. The posting identified him by the nom de guerre of Abu Dawoud al-Amriki, without.
Kurdish fighters in Syria on the march against Islamic State group militants
BEIRUT ��� In contrast to the Iraqi armys failures, Kurdish fighters in Syria are on the march against the Islamic State group, capturing towns and villages in an oil-rich swath of Syrias northeast under the cover of U.S.-led airstrikes. As the Kurds.
Iraqi Forces, Militias Sweep Into Islamic State-Held Tikrit
Explosions and heavy gunfire echoed through Tikrit, a key way station for Iraqi forces trying to expel the militants who hold roughly a third of the country and neighboring Syria. The offensive also will serve as a major crucible for Iraqi forces.
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Kurds Push Into IS Stronghold
(MENAFN - Arab Times) The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said it began an advance towards an Islamic State-held town at the Turkish border on Saturday, thrusting deeper into the jihadists stronghold of Raqqa province in a campaign backed by US-led air .
Kurds capture key Islamic State-held border town in Syria.
Kurds capture key Islamic State-held border town in Syria Washington Post BEIRUT ��� Kurdish fighters took full control of the border town of Tal Abyad on Tuesday, dealing a major blow to the Islamic State groups ability to��.
Syrian Kurds nearing IS border stronghold, thousands flee.
The key refinery town of Beiji has been the scene of fierce fighting between Islamic State militants and government troops, backed by Shiite militias, who took control of the towns center a few days ago.. AKCAKALE, Turkey (AP) ��� Hundreds of Syrian refugees poured into a Turkish-Syrian border crossing Saturday, fleeing intense fighting as Syrian Kurds closed in on an Islamic State-held town ��� the only passageway linking Turkey with the extremist groups��.
An Eroding Syrian Army Points to Strain
BEIRUT, Lebanon ��� The Syrian Army has suffered a string of defeats from re-energized insurgents and is struggling to replenish its ranks as even pro-government families increasingly refuse to send sons to poorly defended units on the front lines.
Kurds capture key Islamic State-held border town in Syria
BEIRUT ��� Kurdish fighters took full control of the border town of Tal Abyad on Tuesday, dealing a major blow to the Islamic State groups ability to wage war in Syria by cutting off a vital supply line to its self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa. A senior.
U.S. moves pilot rescue aircraft closer to battlefield
WASHINGTON ��� The U.S. military has moved search-and-rescue crews to northern Iraq in recent days, following an uproar over the killing of a Jordanian pilot captured in Syria by Islamic State fighters, defense officials said Thursday. The action is.
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ISTANBUL ��� A coalition of Kurdish militias and Arab rebels stormed into a strategic Syrian town on the Turkey border on Monday, seizing most of it from Islamic State fighters who had long used the area to smuggle supplies and. Washington Post Key lawmakers have moved to slash funding of a secret CIA operation to train and arm rebels in Syria, a move that U.S. officials said reflects rising skepticism of the effectiveness of the agency program and the Obama��.
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Working alongside US Marines, the SAS are understood to have helped thousands of Yazidi refugees escape a massacre, as well as preventing the Islamic State takeover of the key Syrian border town of Kobani. Reports of an. Yesterday, a horrifying new video released by the terror group showed captured Kurdish fighters being paraded through the street in cages. Earlier this. He had been captured after his plane was shot down flying over Syria at Christmas.
Battle for Kobani: Isis bears down despite US air strikes and.
The capture of Kobani - a key Syrian town that sits on the Turkish frontier - would give Isis full control of a large stretch of the Turkish-Syrian border.. Protests were reported in cities across Turkey on Tuesday, after Islamic State fighters backed by tanks and artillery engaged in heavy street battles with the towns Kurdish defenders. A 25-year-old.. Any violation of the rules in place will lead to suspending the journalist from his work, and he will be held accountable.
130,000 Syrians Have Fled ISIS And Taken Refuge In.
SURUC, Turkey (AP) ��� Fierce fighting Monday between the Islamic State militant group and Kurdish forces just over the border in Syria brought the battle closer to Turkey, triggering a surge of t.. campaign that President Barack Obamas authorized nearly two weeks ago in order to disrupt and destroy the Islamic State militants, who have slaughtered thousands of people, beheaded U.S. and British captives, and captured a large swath of territory in Syria and Iraq.
Syrian border town emerges as pivot point in Islamic State.
Kobani, a city of 45,000, was under attack in July by the Islamic State terrorist army, a year after Syrian Kurds seized it in the seesawing fortunes of their countrys civil war. But the real. ISIS, meanwhile, is reinforcing its lines around the city and gleefully posting Internet photos of beheaded Kurdish female troops it captured. ���Wars create. A Syrian Kurdish zone along the border, like that held by Iraqi Kurds, could inspire Turkish Kurds to declare their own autonomy.
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