Islamic State kills at least 145 civilians in Syria's Kobani: monitor

[oberliner]

Source: Reuters

Islamic State fighters killed at least 145 civilians in an attack on the Syrian town of Kobani and a nearby village, in what a monitoring group described on Friday as the second worst massacre carried out by the hardline group in Syria.

Fighting between the Kurdish YPG militia and Islamic State fighters who infiltrated the town at the Turkish border on Thursday continued into a second day, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group and a Kurdish official said.

A separate Islamic State assault on government-held areas of the northeastern city of Hasaka was reported to have forced 60,000 people to flee their homes, the United Nations said, warning as many as 200,000 people may eventually try to flee.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/26/us-mideast-crisis-syria-idUSKBN0P60UY20150626

[Fred Sanders]

1. Last gasp of a doomed cult...Raqqa, the world HQ of ISIS will soon fall..the media is ignoring that.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. I'm not so sure about that, Fred.

Raqqa hasn't fallen. ISIS is pushing back.

It controls a huge swathe of northeastern Syria.

It controls a huge swathe of western and northern Iraq.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

[6chars]

3. that's too bad

someone should tell somebody to do something.

[Yupster]

8. Excellent post

Pretty much sums it up.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Syria Islamic State: Kurds 'claim control over Kobane'

Islamic State (IS) militants have been driven out of the town of Kobane, on the Turkish border, Kurdish forces and activists say.
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An activist in Kobane, Mustafa Bali, told AP news agency by telephone that Kobane had been "completely cleared".

"Kurdish forces are now combing the town looking for fighters who may have gone into hiding," he added.
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Unconfirmed reports say Kurdish civilians began returning to the town from across the border in Turkey on Saturday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-33299306

[AngryAmish]

5. This was a terrorist attack, like in France, Tunisia and Kuwait.

Got ignored due to gay marriage.

IS is real and here to stay. No one in the US cares. There will be regret. Amd 1 year from now, there will be another wave of attacks.

[riderinthestorm]

7. This is important news. K&R nt

[Glimmer of Hope]

6. Horrible. Is anyone paying attention?