Speaking in an interview with France 24, in which Turkish president Recep Erdogan lashed out at Germany for not allowing him to address the Turkish community there and preventing him from bringing his bodyguards to the upcoming G20 meeting in Hamburg, Erdogan warned that Turkey is ready to intervene militarily in north Syria to repel…
The Syrian Republican Guard has repelled another [U.S. Israeli] ISIS offensive in Deir Ezzor. The fighting took place near the Deir Ezzor Airbase, the Tamin Brigade base and in the cemetery area. Earlier this month, [U.S. Israeli] ISIS allegedly transferred its self-proclaimed capital from Raqqah to Deir Ezzor amid the continued US-backed advance on Raqqah. If…
Lawmakers in Iraq’s Kurdistan region on Wednesday voted in favour of sending forces to the besieged Syrian town of Kobani via Turkey, MPs said. Kurdistan’s President Masoud Barzani sent a letter to parliament late on Tuesday seeking approval to deploy the region’s peshmerga forces abroad, to fight alongside Syrian [Sunni] Kurds. “Today in parliament we…
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunni Kurdish units had retaken several neighborhoods in Kobani, cutting the Brotherhood’s ISIS’ control from 50 percent of the town to about 30 percent. The Sunni Kurdish fighters have now held out against the hardened Islamists for a month into the militants’ offensive, hanging on to their territory…
