Kurds drive Daesh fighters out of Syrian border town

[Sally]

I hope they did in some of the ISIS members as they were fleeing.

Kurds drive Daesh fighters out of Syrian border town

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  Turkish soldiers stand as people from the Syrian town of Ayn al-Arab or Kobani wait to cross into Turkey following the attacks by Daesh militants as seen from the Turkish side of the border in Suruc, Turkey, on Friday. (AP Photo)
  

HAMZA HENDAWI | AP

Published — Saturday 27 June 2015

BEIRUT: Kurdish forces have driven out Daesh fighters who had infiltrated the Syrian border town of Kobani, but clashes continued outside the town, activists and the official Syrian news agency said Saturday. The civilian death toll — already well over 100 — was expected to rise as the search for bodies continued.
“Kobani has been completely cleared of Daesh and Kurdish forces are now combing the town looking for fighters who may have gone into hiding,” activist Mustafa Bali, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State, told The Associated Press by telephone from Kobani.

The official SANA news agency also said Kobani had been cleared of Daesh fighters and that forces were searching for any remaining militants.

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Good for the Kurds, too bad for ISIS

understanding the religion incorrectly

 

[waltky]

Womens fightin' ISIS...

Christian female fighters stand up to Islamic State
Mon, Dec 14, 2015 - Babylonia has no regrets about leaving behind her two children and her job as a hairdresser to join a Christian female militia battling against the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria.

The fierce-looking 36-year-old in fatigues from the Syriac Christian minority in the northeast believes she is making the future safe for her children. “I miss Limar and Gabriella and worry that they must be hungry, thirsty and cold. But I try to tell them I’m fighting to protect their future,” she said. Babylonia belongs to a small, recently created battalion of Syriac Christian women in Hasakeh province who are fighting the IS. They are following in the footsteps of Syria’s other main female force battling the militants — the women of the YPJ, the female counterpart to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG. So far the new force is small, with about 50 graduates so far from its training camp in the town of al-Qahtaniyeh, also known as Kabre Hyore in Syriac and Tirbespi in Kurdish.

Ormia, a member of the battalion called the “Female Protection Forces of the Land Between the Two Rivers” fighting the Islamic State group, poses during a training at their camp in the town of al-Qahtaniyah, Syria​

However, the “Female Protection Forces of the Land Between the Two Rivers” — the area between the Tigris and Euphrates waterways historically inhabited by Syriacs — is teeming with women eager to prove their worth against the IS. It was actually Babylonia’s husband who encouraged her to leave Limar, nine, and six-year-old Gabriella and join the unit whose first recruits graduated in August. Himself a fighter, he urged her to take up arms to “fight against the idea that the Syriac woman is good for nothing except housekeeping and make-up,” she said. “I’m a practicing Christian and thinking about my children makes me stronger and more determined in my fight against Daesh,” added Babylonia, using the Arabic acronym for the IS.

Syriac Christians belong to the eastern Christian tradition and pray in Aramaic. They include both Orthodox and Catholic branches, and constitute about 15 percent of Syria’s 1.2 million Christians. Before the conflict began in March 2011, Christians from about 11 different sects made up around 5 percent of the population. The unit’s first major action was alongside the newly created Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of Kurdish, Arab and Christian fighters, which recently recaptured the strategic town of al-Hol. “I took part in a battle for the first time in the al-Hol area, but my team wasn’t attacked by the IS,” said 18-year-old Lucia, who gave up her studies to join the militia.

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