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MowCowWhoHow III

(2,103 posts)
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 02:54 PM Jan 2016

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.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-ypg-idUSKCN0V622F

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Syrian Kurds plan big attack to seal Turkish border: source (Original Post) MowCowWhoHow III Jan 2016 OP
These guys seem to be the only ones truly fighting terrorisim. hollowdweller Jan 2016 #1
Another shining result of our Bernin Jan 2016 #2
+ 1 red dog 1 Jan 2016 #4
Assad's Syria was and still is secular (nt) nyabingi Jan 2016 #7
So was Iraq elljay Jan 2016 #10
True (nt) nyabingi Jan 2016 #16
Libya was also secular Cayenne Jan 2016 #14
True (nt) nyabingi Jan 2016 #15
The leading Kurdish group are secularist anarcho-communists... Odin2005 Jan 2016 #8
I just googled Murray Bookchin... PersonNumber503602 Jan 2016 #11
"Libertarian" originally meant Anarchist. Odin2005 Jan 2016 #13
Good News Akicita Jan 2016 #3
K&R red dog 1 Jan 2016 #5
I've been a big fan of the Kurds for a long time. Blue_In_AK Jan 2016 #6
power to these brave people. MariaThinks Jan 2016 #9
Best of luck to the brave Kurds flamingdem Jan 2016 #12
 

hollowdweller

(4,229 posts)
1. These guys seem to be the only ones truly fighting terrorisim.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 03:02 PM
Jan 2016

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)
2. Another shining result of our
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 04:05 PM
Jan 2016

belligerent foreign policy.

Tell me again; who was Secretary of State when we got illegally involved in Syria???

Odin2005

(53,521 posts)
8. The leading Kurdish group are secularist anarcho-communists...
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:25 PM
Jan 2016

...followers of the late American leftist political thinker Murray Bookchin.

PersonNumber503602

(1,134 posts)
11. I just googled Murray Bookchin...
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 08:50 PM
Jan 2016

"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)
13. "Libertarian" originally meant Anarchist.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 10:31 PM
Jan 2016

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".

red dog 1

(27,648 posts)
5. K&R
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 05:05 PM
Jan 2016

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)
6. I've been a big fan of the Kurds for a long time.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 05:24 PM
Jan 2016

They seem to be one of the few groups of people over there willing to fight, especially the women.

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