أرشيف الوسم : Syrian Kurds

Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus on Monday said that around 130,000 Syrians have flooded across the border in Turkey as Kurdish soldiers continued battling the Islamic State (IS) in their attempts to capture the strategically located town of Ain al-Arab. A spokesman for the IS in a statement issued by the group urged Muslims all over the world to …

Hundreds of Kurds have entered northern Syria from Turkey to battle militants besieging the city of Ain al-Arab, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. “At least 800 Kurdish fighters crossed the Turkish-Syrian border to help their comrades in Ain al-Arab (Kobane in Kurdish), which is under total siege by Islamic State jihadists”, the Observatory’s director Rami Abdel Rahman …

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 20 members of extremist group Islamic State (IS) were killed in Wednesday by Syrian air force raids against the group’s bastion in the city of Raqa. Syrian rebels struck and killed 14 people in overnight strikes in the village ofKhatab in the province of Hama, the Observatory and state media said. “At …