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[Tim Drayton]

The Iraq Kurdistan parliament has passed a motion recognising Rojava.

http://www.birgun.net/news/view/irak-ku ... anidi/7298

[Tim Drayton]

It seems the YPG is also fighting the DAESH gangs in another place known in Kurdish as Serêkaniyê, and in Arabic as Ras Al-Ayn. The Kurdish resistance seem to be succeeding there as well - the important message may be that the genocidal head-choppers are not at all invincible, even when better armed.

Gangs inflicted a heavy blow in Serêkaniyê

YPG (People's Protection Units) Press Centre has released a statement providing information about the YPG operation going on in Serêkaniyê since 11 October.

YPG said the operation has reached a new phase now as YPG forces are also launching attacks in Rawiya, Dehma and borderline region, having broken the ISIS gangs' line of defense and seized many positions of theirs.

"The last night's part of the operation, which intensified in Rawiya, Dehma and borderline region, has been completed successfully, and all targeted positions have been seized", the statement said, noting that at last 36 gang members were killed in last night's operations, and a military vehicle belonging to them was destroyed, with gang members inside it.

YPG forces also seized many weapons and large quantities of ammunition belonging to the gangs, and are holding the bodies of 20 dead militants of theirs, including three with Indonesian identities.

The statement added that two YPG fighters have fallen fighting ISIS gangs in last night's operation.

http://en.firatajans.com/news/news/gang ... kaniye.htm

[Tim Drayton]

Meanwhile, more recent good news from Kobane - it seemed impossible, but the town looks like being liberated!

Baharin Kandal said Islamic State (IS) fighters had retreated from all areas of the border town, except for two pockets of resistance in the east.
US-led air strikes had helped push back the militants, she added.

It comes as the new UN commissioner for human rights described IS as a "potentially genocidal" movement.

Baharin Kandal, who commands Kurds fighting in east Kobane, said in a phone interview with the BBC's Kasra Naji that she hoped the city would be liberated soon.

Ms Kandal said her militia group had been receiving arms, supplies and fighters but she refused to say how, our correspondent on the Turkish border near Kobane says.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29647314

[Tim Drayton]

In Mosul, north Iraq, a convoy of DAESH vehicles crossed a bridge that the genocidal organisation itself had mined. The mines went off killing 20 and injuring 30 of them.

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/duny ... 0_olu.html

[Lordo]

their 72 virgins are waiting for them. not even god will be able to help them with this one.

[Tim Drayton]

their 72 virgins are waiting for them. not even god will be able to help them with this one.

Do they get 72 virgins if they are killed by their own side? Apparently women martyrs just get one man in heaven: http://islamqa.info/en/11419 .

[Get Real!]

Zionist America is anti-Christian and that is why they are hell-bent on making Arab/Muslim countries uninhabitable… they want to push Islam into Europe to establish eternal strife and ultimately the destruction of Christianity.

[kurupetos]

Zionist America is anti-Christian and that is why they are hell-bent on making Arab/Muslim countries uninhabitable… they want to push Islam into Europe to establish eternal strife and ultimately the destruction of Christianity.

They are trying, but they cannot destroy God.

[Tim Drayton]

YPG Kobanê commander: We are close to victory

Mehmud Berxwedan, the YPG Kobanê General in Command, has said: “After a one-month resistance we have launched a step-by-step advance towards victory. In the last week in particular Kobanê has become a graveyard for ISIS.”

YPG Kobanê Commander Mahmut Berxwedan spoke to Ronahi TV. He said that, as watched by the world, Kobanê had resisted for 32 days, adding that they were now close to victory.

Berxwedan emphasised that the Kobanê resistance had begun in the villages, where there had been a great resistance from house to house, hamlet to hamlet and from village to village. He added that for 10 to 15 days there had now been resistance on the southern and eastern fronts, adding: “ISIS corpses are in the streets and in every house. We have made a great advance on all three fronts in the last 3 days. Every day we are killing them and seizing their weapons. There is now a clean-up operation going on in Kobanê.”

‘Coalition planes have not hit YPG or civilians’

“Whatever the Turkish press says, the situation of the resistance in Kobanê is apparent”, added YPG Kobanê Commander Mahmud Berxwedan, adding that claims in certain press outlets that coalition planes had hit civilians and YPG positions by mistake were not correct. “Nothing like that has happened,” said Berxwedan, stressing that on the contrary coalition planes had been careful.

Mahmud Berxwedan said that ISIS had calculated that it would capture Kobanê within a few days and had brought forces in accordance with that plan. He added that while ISIS had captured other countries with such a force, it had not been able to take Kobanê in a month. The YPG commander said: “this demonstrates that the resistance here has been unprecedented. They brought weapons they had taken from the Iraqi and Syrian armies, but we are fighting them with our determination, without any arms support from anywhere.”

Berxwedan added that those who wanted Kobanê to fall were victims of their own imagination, saying: “the fall of Kobanê is a fantasy that will never materialise.”

Berxwedan concluded by saying this was all down to the month-long resistance, adding: “Let all the world see, those who did not believe should see. Kobanê is a place of resistance and victory. It doesn’t matter what anyone says, they should come and see the reality in Kobanê.”

http://en.firatajans.com/news/news/ypg- ... ictory.htm

[Tim Drayton]

A biker gang from Cologne in Germany is now claiming to have been involved in the anti-DAESH fight. Details are not clear, but from the following report (in German), it seems the gang is claiming that some of its members were out there and were shot at in Kobane.

http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland ... 10216.html