Hundreds of Kurds Enter Syria From Turkey to fight ISIL
ANKARA (Dispatches) – Over 300 Kurdish fighters have crossed into Syria from Turkey to battle the Takfiri ISIL terrorists operating inside the Arab country.
"They crossed over last night, they are more than 300,” the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Saturday, adding that they joined the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in their battle against the ISIL terror group as the cult tries to seize the town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane to the Kurds.
The ISIL Takfiris have been seeking to capture the strategic border town since Tuesday and have seized 60 Kurdish villages in the region.
A large number of Syrian Kurds have fled to Turkey due to the clashes in the area. Turkey opened its border on Friday to fleeing Kurds and has since received 45,000 people, according to authorities.
Meanwhile, the UK-based SOHR group noted that fighting continued on Saturday, with heavy clashes in the vicinity of Ain al-Arab, which is Syria's third largest Kurdish town.
The SOHR also said the ISIL terrorists have executed at least 11 Kurds, among them two teenagers, in the area around the town.
The Takfiri ISIL terrorists have seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria. They have carried out heinous crimes in the two countries including mass execution of people.
Syria has been gripped by deadly violence since 2011.
The Western powers and their regional allies -- especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey -- are reportedly supporting the terrorists operating inside Syria.
More than 191,000 people have been killed in over three years of fighting in Syria, says the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), calling the figure a probable "underestimate of the real total number of people killed.”
On the other hand, Turkey has opened its southern border to allow thousands of Syrian Kurds fleeing the ISIL Takfiri group enter the country.
The terrorists have reportedly been closing in on Kurdish communities following the takeover of dozens of villages in Syria’s Kurdish region.
TV footage showed groups of exhausted Syrian Kurds, most of them women and children, crossing into the southeastern Turkish village of Dikmetas on Friday.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters in Azerbaijan Republic that more that 4,000 Syrian refugees were sheltered.
"We will take in our brothers fleeing ... from Syria or any other place without any ethnic or sectarian discrimination,” Davutoglu said. "Their needs will be met. This is a humanitarian mission.”
The ISIL Takfiris have been seeking to capture the strategic border town since Tuesday and have seized 60 Kurdish villages in the region.
A large number of Syrian Kurds have fled to Turkey due to the clashes in the area. Turkey opened its border on Friday to fleeing Kurds and has since received 45,000 people, according to authorities.
Meanwhile, the UK-based SOHR group noted that fighting continued on Saturday, with heavy clashes in the vicinity of Ain al-Arab, which is Syria's third largest Kurdish town.
The SOHR also said the ISIL terrorists have executed at least 11 Kurds, among them two teenagers, in the area around the town.
The Takfiri ISIL terrorists have seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria. They have carried out heinous crimes in the two countries including mass execution of people.
Syria has been gripped by deadly violence since 2011.
The Western powers and their regional allies -- especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey -- are reportedly supporting the terrorists operating inside Syria.
More than 191,000 people have been killed in over three years of fighting in Syria, says the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), calling the figure a probable "underestimate of the real total number of people killed.”
On the other hand, Turkey has opened its southern border to allow thousands of Syrian Kurds fleeing the ISIL Takfiri group enter the country.
The terrorists have reportedly been closing in on Kurdish communities following the takeover of dozens of villages in Syria’s Kurdish region.
TV footage showed groups of exhausted Syrian Kurds, most of them women and children, crossing into the southeastern Turkish village of Dikmetas on Friday.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters in Azerbaijan Republic that more that 4,000 Syrian refugees were sheltered.
"We will take in our brothers fleeing ... from Syria or any other place without any ethnic or sectarian discrimination,” Davutoglu said. "Their needs will be met. This is a humanitarian mission.”