Let's hope with more Kurds coming in, they give the savage ISIS gang a good beating.
Kurds from Turkey, Syria enter Iraq to battle Islamic State
BY MITCHELL PROTHERO
McClatchy Foreign StaffAugust 5, 2014
.IRBIL, IRAQ — Kurdish forces pushed Tuesday to retake territory they lost over the weekend to the Islamic State in a major counteroffensive that will test the ability of the best-trained military force in Iraq to confront the radical Islamist group.
Kurdish forces made up of thousands of insurgents from Turkey and Syria attacked Islamic State positions at Sinjar, one of three Iraqi cities that fell to the Islamic State over the weekend, while peshmerga militias loyal to IraqÂ’s autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government pressed to lift the Islamic StateÂ’s siege of the Mosul Dam, IraqÂ’s largest and an important source of electricity. The Islamists nearly overran the dam over the weekend.
U.S. officials said they were working with the Kurdistan Regional Government in Irbil and IraqÂ’s central government in Baghdad to counter the Islamic StateÂ’s advance. But it was unclear what material assistance, if any, the United States was lending to the fight.
The Kurdistan Regional GovernmentÂ’s representative in Washington said requested U.S. equipment intended to counter the sophisticated American weaponry that the Islamic State had captured in its June sweep of three Iraqi provinces had yet to arrive.
The entry of the Turkish and Syrian Kurds into the fight in Iraq marked a surprising new stage in the unfolding efforts to counter the Islamic State, and was a reminder that national borders have become insignificant in response to the Islamists, who themselves have proclaimed a caliphate in the areas of Iraq and Syria they control and are also fighting in Lebanon.
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IRBIL, Iraq: Kurds from Turkey, Syria enter Iraq to battle Islamic State | World | The Bellingham Herald
Kurds from Turkey, Syria enter Iraq to battle Islamic State
BY MITCHELL PROTHERO
McClatchy Foreign StaffAugust 5, 2014
.IRBIL, IRAQ — Kurdish forces pushed Tuesday to retake territory they lost over the weekend to the Islamic State in a major counteroffensive that will test the ability of the best-trained military force in Iraq to confront the radical Islamist group.
Kurdish forces made up of thousands of insurgents from Turkey and Syria attacked Islamic State positions at Sinjar, one of three Iraqi cities that fell to the Islamic State over the weekend, while peshmerga militias loyal to IraqÂ’s autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government pressed to lift the Islamic StateÂ’s siege of the Mosul Dam, IraqÂ’s largest and an important source of electricity. The Islamists nearly overran the dam over the weekend.
U.S. officials said they were working with the Kurdistan Regional Government in Irbil and IraqÂ’s central government in Baghdad to counter the Islamic StateÂ’s advance. But it was unclear what material assistance, if any, the United States was lending to the fight.
The Kurdistan Regional GovernmentÂ’s representative in Washington said requested U.S. equipment intended to counter the sophisticated American weaponry that the Islamic State had captured in its June sweep of three Iraqi provinces had yet to arrive.
The entry of the Turkish and Syrian Kurds into the fight in Iraq marked a surprising new stage in the unfolding efforts to counter the Islamic State, and was a reminder that national borders have become insignificant in response to the Islamists, who themselves have proclaimed a caliphate in the areas of Iraq and Syria they control and are also fighting in Lebanon.
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IRBIL, Iraq: Kurds from Turkey, Syria enter Iraq to battle Islamic State | World | The Bellingham Herald
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