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Kobane: Islamic State battles to encircle Syrian Kurds
Saturday, October 11, 2014 21:38
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Redux 30 tháng 4 for me
April 30th, 1975, aboard USS Blue Ridge:
U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam Graham Martin said
“If we had done as a nation the things I think we said we should do
–if we had kept our commitments –we wouldn't have to evacuate.”
The Kurdish defenders of the Syrian border town of Kobane have held back advancing Islamic State fighters, with the US supplying air support.
The Kurds repulsed a pre-dawn attack and still control the town's border crossing point with Turkey.
Correspondents say the crossing point is a vital supply and exit route.
The Pentagon reports that US planes have been bombing IS targets to the north and south of Kobane since Friday.
US and other aircraft from the international coalition also carried out air strikes on IS targets inside Iraq as well as dropping supplies to Iraqi government forces at Baiji, where Iraq's biggest oil refinery is located.
In Iraq's Anbar province, officials reportedly made an urgent appeal for military help against IS.
Haze and dust
More @ BBC
Source: http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2014/10/kobane-islamic-state-battles-to.html
