Friday 26 September 2014

ISIS bergerak lebih dekat dgn SYRIA-TURKEY Di tengah-tengah Sempadan EXODUS (penghijrahan besar-besaran) dari KURDIS



KyrolAnz  Keadaan ini kekal tegang di sekitar bandar strategik di sempadan Syria-Turki, di mana kuasa-kuasa Kurdish cuba untuk menghentikan terlebih dahulu militan Negara Islam 'di tengah-tengah penghijrahan besar-besaran dari Kurdis di Turki.

Dalam tempoh 24 jam di sana telah meningkat laporan bahawa ADALAH bergerak lebih dekat dan lebih dekat kepada Kobane (Ayn al-Arab dalam bahasa Arab), sebuah bandar di Aleppo Governorate di utara Syria yg didiami oleh orang Kurdis, kata Ruptly ini Lizzie Phelan, yang di tempat kejadian .

"Ini benar-benar adalah sebuah bandar yang dikepung dan kita telah melihat kesan kemanusiaan itu dgn 150,000 Kurdis Syria yang melarikan diri dari Kobane utk sekitar kawasan," kata Phelan.

Negara Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini ISIS) pejuang meningkat ke arah Kobane pada hari Jumaat, melawan tentera Kurdish. Sekurang-kurangnya 2 peluru yg dihantar oleh militan IS melanda ladang anggur di sebelah Turki pada hari Jumaat, saksi tempatan memberitahu Reuters. Terdapat tidak berlaku apa-apa laporan daripada mangsa lagi. Polis separa tentera tiba untuk memeriksa kawasan yang musnah.

ISIS moves Closer to SYRIA-TURKEY Border 
Amid mass Exodus of KURDS . . .

The situation remains tense around a strategic town on Syrian-Turkish border, where Kurdish forces are trying to stop Islamic State militants’ advance amid a mass exodus of Kurds into Turkey.

In the last 24 hours there have been increasing reports that IS are moving closer and closer to Kobane (Ayn al-Arab in Arabic), a city in Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria inhabited by Kurds, says Ruptly's Lizzie Phelan, who is at the scene.

“This really is a city under siege and we’ve seen humanitarian effects of that with 150,000 Syrian Kurds fleeing from Kobane to surrounding region,” Phelan said.

Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) fighters edged towards Kobane on Friday, battling Kurdish forces. At least two shells sent by IS militants hit a vineyard on the Turkish side on Friday, a local witness told Reuters. There haven’t been any reports of casualties yet. Paramilitary police arrived to inspect the damaged area.

Pelarian Syria Kurdish berdiri dalam sebuah trak di sempadan Turki-Syria berhampiran bandar tenggara Suruc di wilayah Sanliurfa September 25, 2014 (Kurdish Syrian refugees stand in a truck at the Turkish-Syrian border near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province September 25, 2014 (Reuters/Murad Sezer)

"Kami takut. Kami mengambil kereta dan meninggalkan hari ini," pemilik kebun anggur Huseyin Turkmen, 60, memberitahu Reuters.

Phelan menekankan bahwa keadaan semasa menimbulkan byk soalan mengenai kawasan mengapa sehingga kini serangan udara yang diketuai telah disasarkan seperti Idlib, Aleppo, sempadan Iraq, & jauh ke selatan ke Raqqa, daripada bandar strategik Kobane.

"We're afraid. We're taking the car and leaving today," vineyard owner Huseyin Turkmen, 60, told Reuters.

Phelan stresses that the current situation raises a many questions as to why up until now the US-led airstrikes have targeted areas like Idlib, Aleppo, the Iraqi border, and further south into Raqqa, rather than the strategic town of Kobane.


Dengan penduduk kira-kira 40,000, Kobane berada di bawah kawalan YPG Kurdish (Unit Perlindungan Rakyat) pada tahun 2012. lokasi strategik Kobane telah menyekat pejuang Negara Islam dari menyatukan keuntungan mereka di utara Syria.

With a population of about 40,000, Kobane came under control of the Kurdish YPG (People's Protection Units) in 2012. Kobane's strategic location has been blocking the Islamic State fighters from consolidating their gains in northern Syria.

Boy plays at being soldier, mimmicks shooting thru wall at #Mursitpinar border crossing with #Kobane #Syria @Ruptly  3:41 PM - 26 Sep 2014

"Pertempuran bergerak antara timur, barat dan selatan Kobane . . . 3 pihak aktif," Idris Nassan, timbalan menteri luar untuk kanton Kobane, memberitahu Reuters melalui telefon dari pusat bandar.

"[ADALAH militan] berusaha keras untuk mencapai Kobane Terdapat rintangan di sini oleh YPG, dgn Kobane & beberapa sukarelawan dari utara Kurdistan - Kurd Turki - Yang datang untuk berkongsi dalam usaha Kobane Mereka telah membuat tindak balas yang kuat," katanya.

Nassan berkata jika Islam datang di dalam bandar, "semua orang di sini [dalam Kobane] bersenjata."

"Walaupun saya. Saya Menteri Luar timbalan sini di Kobane kanton, tetapi saya seorang lelaki bersenjata juga. Saya bersedia untuk mempertahankan Kobane, "katanya," Setiap perempuan, setiap orang muda, setiap orang yang mampu untuk melawan, untuk membawa senjata, mereka bersenjata dan mereka bersedia untuk mempertahankan dan berjuang. "

Semua dalam semua lebih 140,000 Kurd telah melarikan diri Kobane dan kampung-kampung sekitar sejak Jumaat lepas, menyeberangi ke Turki.

Berpuluh-puluh kampung telah dipindahkan sejak 16 September, apabila serangan IS bermula. Sejak itu, lebih 300 pejuang Kurdis telah ke Syria dari Turki untuk memerangi militan.

Pada hari Khamis, Balai Cerap Syria bagi Hak Asasi Manusia melaporkan bahawa sekurang-kurangnya 14 Negara Islam militan dan lima orang awam terbunuh dalam serangan udara yang dilakukan oleh tentera Amerika Syarikat ke bermalam di timur laut Syria.

"The clashes are moving between east, west and south of Kobane ... The three sides are active," Idris Nassan, deputy foreign minister for the Kobane canton, told Reuters by phone from the center of the town.

"[IS militants] are trying hard to reach Kobane. There is resistance here by YPG, by Kobane and some volunteers from north Kurdistan - Turkish Kurds - who are coming to share in the efforts of Kobane. They have made a strong response," he added.

Nassan said that if the Islamists come inside the town, "everyone here [in Kobane] is armed.”

“Even me. I am the deputy foreign minister here in Kobane canton, but I am an armed man too. I am ready to defend Kobane," he said, "Every girl, every young man, every man who is able to fight, to carry a gun, they armed and they are ready to defend and fight."

All in all over 140,000 Kurds have fled Kobane and surrounding villages since last Friday, crossing into Turkey.

Dozens of villages have been evacuated since September 16, when the IS assault began. Since then, over 300 Kurdish fighters have come to Syria from Turkey to fight against the militants.

On Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that at least 14 Islamic State militants and five civilians have been killed in airstrikes carried out by the US-led forces overnight in northeast Syria.


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