Syrian Kurds plan big attack to seal Turkish border: source
Source: Reuters
The powerful Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and its local allies have drawn up plans for a major attack to seize the final stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border held by Islamic State fighters, a YPG source familiar with the plan said on Thursday.
Such an offensive could deprive Islamic State fighters of a logistical route that has been used by the group to bring in supplies and foreign recruits.
But it could lead to confrontation with Turkey, which is fighting against its own Kurdish insurgents and sees the Syrian Kurds as an enemy.
After a year of military gains aided by U.S.-led air strikes, the Kurds and their allies already control the entire length of Syria's northeastern Turkish frontier from Iraq to the banks of the Euphrates river, which crosses the border west of the town of Kobani.
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hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)All the others Sunni and Shiite seem to be pulling for their sect.
The Kurds seem to be the only ones that are pushing a secular society.
Bernin
(311 posts)belligerent foreign policy.
Tell me again; who was Secretary of State when we got illegally involved in Syria???
red dog 1
(27,648 posts)nyabingi
(1,145 posts)elljay
(1,178 posts)under Saddam.
nyabingi
(1,145 posts)Cayenne
(480 posts)until we allowed the salafists to run the place.
nyabingi
(1,145 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)...followers of the late American leftist political thinker Murray Bookchin.
PersonNumber503602
(1,134 posts)"Murray Bookchin was an American anarchist and libertarian socialist author, orator, historian, and political theoretician"
libertarian socialist? I need to read up on what that is, because that seems different.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)It still does in Europe. It's current American meaning originated in the 60s. It's one of those terms that means different things in the US and Europe, like "liberal".
Akicita
(1,196 posts)red dog 1
(27,648 posts)If it leads to a confrontation with Turkey, so what?
Turkey needs to back off, especially when it comes to the Kurds fighting ISIS.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)They seem to be one of the few groups of people over there willing to fight, especially the women.