ISIS update 1/14/2016..US troops arrive in Iraq “to fight ISIL”
Turkey seals border with Kurdish enclave in Syria surrounded by ISIS
Turkey blockades Syrian Kurdish areas surrounded by ISIS
RT – January 13, 2016
Turkey has established a strict blockade of the Kurdish regions in Syria surrounded by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), depriving Syrian Kurds of essential supplies and shooting people trying to enter Turkey from Syria, RT’s Murad Gazdiev reports.
The Turkish border with the Kurdish territories in the northern Syria, which stretches for 750 kilometers, has been fitted with two layers of barbed wire, a huge minefield, and sniper towers at regular intervals. It has only two border crossings that are closed most of the time.
“They [Turks] do not let anything across: neither food, nor humanitarian aid, nor medicine. They only let returning refugees cross,” Hadir Mustafa, the head of one of the border crossings on the Syrian side, told RT.
“The Turkish soldiers do not cooperate, they are aggressive and hostile. They push, hit people and tell them to never come back,” he added.
Murad Gazdiev reported from the border that Turkish border guards had refused to let an ambulance cross the border that was transporting a man critically injured in a terrorist act in a nearby Syrian Kurdish town, saying they needed to receive permission from Turkish provincial authorities first.
Apart from maintaining the blockade, Turkish snipers on towers also target civilians on the Syrian side. They recently shot and killed a Kurdish schoolboy, who was trying to cross the border in order to find work in Turkey.
“The Turks shot him 70 meters from the border, on the Syrian side. I saw the place myself,” the boy’s father told RT.
On Sunday, a 16-year-old girl was also shot dead as she was trying to get to Turkey from Kurdish territories in Syria, while others from her group were injured and had to be treated for gunshot wounds.
The Turkish blockade of Syrian Kurdistan is “total,” Gazdiev reports citing the locals.
“The large part of what we grow here we throw away because we can’t sell it outside,” a Kurdish fruit and vegetable seller named Beze told RT, adding that it is easier to smuggle goods through IS-controlled territories than to transport them through the Turkish border.
“Things that do not grow here also have to be smuggled in. By the time they get here they cost ten times as much,” Beze added.
At the same time, the Turkish border with jihadist-controlled territories in Syria remains open. Weapons, fighters and goods flow freely through checkpoints manned by Islamic militants.
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Iraqi government troops press on with operations to purge Daesh terrorists from the newly-retaken city of Ramadi.
The army managed to liberate dozens of Iraqi families held hostage by the terrorists. Daesh has been using civilians as human shields in the capital of Anbar province. A military commander expressed hope that the full liberation of Anbar will be complete in the coming days. Last month, the Iraqi troops took control of much of Ramadi where they have defused many bombs and booby traps planted by Daesh. Terrorists took over the city last May, causing tens of thousands of civilians to flee. Daesh has lost 40% of its territory in Iraq, but still holds the country’s second-largest city Mosul.
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Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2016/01/isis-update-1142016us-troops-arrive-in.html
