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A group that monitors the Syrian civil war said patagonia down sweater salethe Kurdish forces faced inevitable defeat in Kobani if Turkey didpatagonia outlet not open its border to let through arms something Ankara has so far appeared reluctant to do. The main Kurdish armed group, the YPG, said in a statement the air strikes had inflicted heavy losses on Islamic State, but had been less effective in the last two days.A Kurdish military official, speaking to Reuters from Kobani, said street to street fighting was making it hpatagonia cascada 30l backpack reviewarder for the warplanes to target Islamic State positions. We have a problem, which is the war between houses, said Esmat Al Sheikh, head of the Kobani defense council. The air strikes are benefiting us, but Islamic State is bringing tanks and artillery from the east. We didn t see them with tanks, but yesterday we saw T 57 tanks, he added.While Islamic patagonia discount code children's place0State has been able to reinforce its fighters, the Kurds have not. Islamic State has besieged the town to the east, south and west, meaning the Kurds only possible supply route is the Turkish border to the north. envoy to Syria on Friday called on Turkey to help prevent a slaughter in Kobani, asking it to let volunteers cross the frontier so they can reinforce the Kurdish forces defending the town that lies within sight of Turkish territory.Turkey has yet to respond to the remarks by Staffan de Mistura, who said he feared a repeatpatagonia women's el cap fleece jacket - special of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia when thousands died. Kurdish leaders in Syria have asked Ankara to establish a corridor through Turkey patagonia discount code children's place3to allow aid and military supplies to reach Kobani.A senior Kurdish militant has threatened Turkey with a new Kurdish revolt if it sticks with its current policy of non intervention in the battle for the Syrian town of Kobani. (Islamic State) is getting supplies and men, while Turkey is preventing Kobani from getting ammunition. Even with the resistance, if things stay like this, the Kurdish forces will be like a car without fuel, said Rami Abdelrahman, who runs the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an organization that monitors the conflict in Syria through sources on the ground.PLUMES OF SMOKETurkey has been reluctant to help the Kurds defending Kobani, one of three areas of northern Syria where Kurds have established self rule since the Syrian civil war began in 2011. The main Syrian Kurdish group has close ties to the PKK which waged a militant campaign for Kurdish rights in Turkey and is listed as a terrorist group by Turkey and its Western allies.Tall plumes of smoke were seen rising from Kobani on Saturday and the sound of gunfire was close to constant as battles raged into the afternoon, a Reuters journalist observing from the Turkish side of the frontier said.After sunset, the sounds of gunfire and shelling continued. Red tracer gunfire lit up the sky in the eastern sector of the town, much of which has fallen to Islamic State. Battles also raged at the southern and western edgespatagonia discount code children's place of the town.A Kurdish military official in thepatagonia discount code for target Syrian city of Qamishli, another area under Kurdish control, said thousands of fighters stood ready to go to Kobani were Turkey to open a corridor.But Ghaliya Naamat, the official, said the fighters in Kobani were mainly in need of better weaponry. Medium range weapons is what is lacking, she told Reuters by telephone. According to the news and the information in Kobani, there is no shortage in numbers. President Barack Obama s three week old air campaign against Islamic State in Syria. strategy to degrade and destroy the group that has seized large areas of Syria and Iraq, threatening to redraw the borders of the modern Middle East according to its ultra strict vision of Islam. officials acknowledge is possible in coming days it would be able to boast that it has withstood American aipatagonia discount code children's place2r power. Central Command said. envoy De Mistura saipatagonia everlong review 901d.The Observatory said no fewer than 226 Kurdish fighters and 298 Islamic State patagonia gear reviewsmilitants had been killed since the group launched its Kobani offensive in mid September. It said the overall death toll including civilians was probably much higher.Islamic State views the main armed Kurdish group, the YPG, and its supporters as apostates due to their secular ideology.Idris Nassanpatagonia guide jacket zara, deputy foreign minister of Kobani district, told Reuters by telephone that air strikes had helped the Kurdish fighters regapatagonia discount code children's place1in some territory in the south of the city but they were not enough. A few days ago, ISIS attacked with a Humvee vehicle, they use mortars, cannons, tanks. We don t need just Kalashnikovs and bullets. We need something effective since they captured many tanks and military vehicles in Iraq, patagonia guide pants 6 long for womenhe said, calling for outside powers to send weapons. The supply of fighters is very good for YPG, he added. But fighters coming without arms, without weaponry is not going to make a critical difference.
