Kurdish Fighters Recapture 101 Villages Near Kobani

Date: 06 February 2015 - 20:53

News ID: ۱۰۶۱۷

BAGHDAD (Press TV) – Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have recaptured over a hundred villages from the ISIL Takfiri terrorists around Syria’s flashpoint border town of Kobani.
According to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Friday, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, also known as YPG, have recaptured 101 villages around Kobani since seizing the town from IS on January 26 after four months of fighting.
"They (Kurds) now control territory ranging from 15 to 25 kilometers (nine to 16 miles) from Kobani to the east, west and south,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, the director of the UK-based observatory.
Kurdish fighters seized the town on the border with Turkey on January 26 and since then battles to recapture some 350 nearby villages have continued.
More than 200,000 people have reportedly died in nearly four years of conflict in Syria. In 2014 alone, over 76,000 people, including thousands of children, were killed in the country.
Violence has also upended the lives of many, forcing more than 7.2 million Syrians from their homes, according to the United Nations.
The Takfiri terrorist groups, with members from several Western countries, control parts of Syria and Iraq, and have been carrying out horrific acts of violence such as public decapitations and crucifixions against all communities such as Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.
Meanwhile, Iraqi Armed Forces, along with volunteers, staged massive operations against the ISIL terrorists’ strongholds near the Capital city of Tikrit, in Salahuddin province, killing at least 12 anti-government fighters.
The Iraqi Army, apart from winning the battle against the ISIL in the region, detonated a large number of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) in the liberated areas near Tikrit.
The ISIL Takfiri terrorists currently control a shrinking part of Syria and Iraq. They have threatened all communities, including Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians, Ezadi Kurds and others, as they continue their atrocities in Iraq.
Senior Iraqi officials have blamed Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and some Persian Gulf Arab states for the growing terrorism in their country.
The ISIL has links with Saudi intelligence and is believed to be indirectly supported by the Zionist regime.