Hope they get enough weapons to accomplish the job. Those mentally ill Muslims who are physically unable to leave their rooms are just destined to conduct their Jihad over the Internet/ They must be so frustrated that they can't help their Sunni ISIS friends fight the Kurds. So sad!!!
Syrian Kurdish fighters pushing back Islamic State on their own
YPG militia member Zinar Kochar, 21, stands in a destroyed school in Jazaa, Syria. The blackboard still bears a math lesson. (For The Times)
By A LOS ANGELES TIMES STAFF WRITER
SyriaIraqTurkeyRebellionsIslamic StateIraq Crisis (2014)U.S. Military
Islamic State militants no match for Syrian Kurdish group known as YPG
U.S. wary of aiding Syrian Kurdish fighters despite their success against Islamist militants
'We don't need outside help,' commander in Syrian Kurdish group YPG declares
The Kurdish fighter perched on the roof of a schoolhouse pocked with holes from bullets and tank rounds, pointing across a rubble field toward several grain silos blasted open by shell fire.
"They came at us from there with tanks and Hummers, but we held our ground," said the fighter, Zinar Kochar, 21, on guard in this battered village in northeastern Syria, a few miles from the border with Iraq. "After the blow we dealt them here, Daesh won't come back."
"Daesh" is a colloquial designation for Islamic State, the militant group that has made major inroads in Syria and Iraq. Little noticed by the outside world, a Kurdish-led army known as the Popular Protection Units — YPG, its Kurdish-language initials — has been perhaps the most effective force to date against the militants.
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Syrian Kurdish fighters pushing back Islamic State on their own
YPG militia member Zinar Kochar, 21, stands in a destroyed school in Jazaa, Syria. The blackboard still bears a math lesson. (For The Times)
By A LOS ANGELES TIMES STAFF WRITER
SyriaIraqTurkeyRebellionsIslamic StateIraq Crisis (2014)U.S. Military
Islamic State militants no match for Syrian Kurdish group known as YPG
U.S. wary of aiding Syrian Kurdish fighters despite their success against Islamist militants
'We don't need outside help,' commander in Syrian Kurdish group YPG declares
The Kurdish fighter perched on the roof of a schoolhouse pocked with holes from bullets and tank rounds, pointing across a rubble field toward several grain silos blasted open by shell fire.
"They came at us from there with tanks and Hummers, but we held our ground," said the fighter, Zinar Kochar, 21, on guard in this battered village in northeastern Syria, a few miles from the border with Iraq. "After the blow we dealt them here, Daesh won't come back."
"Daesh" is a colloquial designation for Islamic State, the militant group that has made major inroads in Syria and Iraq. Little noticed by the outside world, a Kurdish-led army known as the Popular Protection Units — YPG, its Kurdish-language initials — has been perhaps the most effective force to date against the militants.
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Syrian Kurdish fighters pushing back Islamic State on their own - LA Times
