Way to go, Kurds!!!
Kurdish fighters advance against jihadis in Syria
Peshmerga forces capture more than a dozen villages from Islamic State, official says
BY BASSEM MROUE September 15, 2014, 9:55 pm 1
An Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighter takes up position in the town of Bashiqa, 13 kilometers northeast of Mosul, on August 12, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
The fighting in the mainly-Kurdish Hassakeh province came as diplomats at a Paris conference tried to agree on a global strategy to fight the extremist group, which has captured large tracts of territory in Iraq and Syria.
Kurdish fighters have been repelling the advances of the Islamic State militants for more than a year in northern Syria. The battle-hardened Kurdish force, known by its acronym YPK, has been the most successful at fighting the Islamic State group, which has routed Iraqi and Syrian armed forces.
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Kurdish fighters advance against jihadis in Syria The Times of Israel
Kurdish fighters advance against jihadis in Syria
Peshmerga forces capture more than a dozen villages from Islamic State, official says
BY BASSEM MROUE September 15, 2014, 9:55 pm 1
An Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighter takes up position in the town of Bashiqa, 13 kilometers northeast of Mosul, on August 12, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
The fighting in the mainly-Kurdish Hassakeh province came as diplomats at a Paris conference tried to agree on a global strategy to fight the extremist group, which has captured large tracts of territory in Iraq and Syria.
Kurdish fighters have been repelling the advances of the Islamic State militants for more than a year in northern Syria. The battle-hardened Kurdish force, known by its acronym YPK, has been the most successful at fighting the Islamic State group, which has routed Iraqi and Syrian armed forces.
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Kurdish fighters advance against jihadis in Syria The Times of Israel