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  1. Women make Kobani living hell for Islamic State

    taken de facto control over a sizable chunk of Syria's predominantly Kurdish north. According to ... research group TRAC, as much as 35% of Kurdish troops in Syria's north are women. Estimates from other ... groups put the numbers of Kurdish women fighting in Syria as high as 10,000. The Syrian Observatory for ...

  2. Kurds drive back IS amid West's shifting alliances

    our main effort, and it has to be, and the things that we鈥檙e doing right now in Syria are being done ... strikes against Iraq and Syria told an October 17 Washington press conference. However, the first ... this hard. This was demonstrated by Obama鈥檚 back down from threats to intervene in Syria after dictator ...

  3. John Pilger: From Pol Pot to ISIS 鈥 鈥楢nything that flies on everything that moves鈥

    had much in common with today's Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). They, too, were ruthless ... 鈥淩ebel鈥 Syria offered even greater rewards, with CIA and Gulf state ratlines of weapons, logistics and ... support鈥 for those 鈥渇acing genocide鈥 in Iraq and Syria. This will further 鈥渢he imperative of a political ...

  4. Palestine freedom fighters urge support for Kurdish resistance

    resistance in Kobane against ISIS and their imperialist supporters.鈥 People in Syria, Iraq and everywhere in ... assault against the Palestinian people in Gaza. 鈥淲e stand with the people of Syria who are defending their ... encourage the entry of these reactionary armed groups (ISIS and others) now attacking Kobane into Syria. At ...

  5. Malalai Joya: Fiery salutations to the brave women of Kobane

    and follow us on Twitter. Afghanistan Syria Kurdistan October 17, 2014 1029 Afghani revolutionary and ...

  6. Turkey: Kurds fight for language, rights

    the siege of Kobani 鈥 a Kurdish town in Syria's north 鈥 demonstrate that Turkey's rulers ...