Kerry : U.S. establishing No-fly, Buffer Zones in Syria Worth Considering
Written by : Mohamed Abdel Fattah
Oct 09, 2014
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that a buffer zone along the border between Syria and Turkey is worth considering ,wall street Journal reported
Kerry, appearing at the State Department with his U.K. counterpart, said a buffer zone is “worth examining, worth looking at very closely.” He added that Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan should not bear the “incredible burden” of thousands of refugees fleeing from Syria into neighboring countries.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Friday
a no-fly zone over northeastern Syria and a buffer zone along the border between Syria and Turkey are among the options being considered by the Obama administration to protect civilians from airstrikes by the Syrian government.
Turkey's parliament has approved any incursions the Turkish government sees fit to launch over the border in either Iraq or Syria. Turkey is an important country regionally in regards to the fight against IS. It not only shares borders with Iraq and Syria but its borders are situated near the trouble spots, near where IS have seized territory.
Gun battles and explosions echoed from the embattled Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani on Wednesday, as Islamic State militants detonated a car bomb and new American-led airstrikes hit the northern edge of the town, close to the Turkish border.
A Kurdish official in Kobani, Assi Abdullah, said that despite the aerial bombing, Islamic State fighters had managed to enter new areas of the town and move north, closer to the border.
Kobani ,six miles from the Turkish border to consolidate the territorial gains it has made in Iraq and Syria in recent months.
Militants raised their flag on a building on the eastern outskirts of the Syrian border town of Kobani after an assault of almost three weeks, but the town's Kurdish defenders said they had not reached the city center on Monday.
The assault has forced some 160,000 Syrians to flee and put a strain on Kurdish forces, who have struggled to hold off the extremists. Hundreds more civilians fled Kobani on Monday as the jihadists advanced, according to Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
Kobani has become a crucial battleground in the international fight against ISIL fighters.
Kurds have expressed anger and disappointment over Ankara's policy against ISIS, accusing the government of turning a blind eye to the group and refusing to allow Turkish Kurds to cross the border and fight in Syria.
The capture of Kobani would give ISIS control of a large swath of land bordering Turkey and eliminate a vital pocket of Kurdish resistance. It would also provide a link between the group's territory near the ancient Syrian city of Aleppo and its largest operations base at Raqqa in northeastern Syria.
The fall of Kobani to the Isis extremists represents a huge threat to Turkey’s Kurds, who make up about 20% of the population, and their outlawed army, the PKK or the Kurdistan Workers’ party, which, until a couple of years ago, had been effectively at war with the Turkish state for 30 years.
The United States and five Arab allies launched an aerial campaign against the Islamic State group in Syria on Sept. 23 with the aim to push back the militant group that has declared a self-styled caliphate, or Islamic state, ruled by its brutal interpretation of Islam in territory it has seized across much of Iraq and Syria.. The U.S. has been bombing Islamic State targets in neighboring Iraq since August.
Sources
http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-s-kerry-establishment-of-buffer-zones-in-syria-worth-considering-1412789955
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/08/kobani-isis-turkey-kurds-ypg-syria-erdogan
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/world/middleeast/isis-advances-in-syrian-border-town-of-kobani-despite-airstrikes.html?_r=0
Oct 09, 2014
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that a buffer zone along the border between Syria and Turkey is worth considering ,wall street Journal reported
Kerry, appearing at the State Department with his U.K. counterpart, said a buffer zone is “worth examining, worth looking at very closely.” He added that Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan should not bear the “incredible burden” of thousands of refugees fleeing from Syria into neighboring countries.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Friday
a no-fly zone over northeastern Syria and a buffer zone along the border between Syria and Turkey are among the options being considered by the Obama administration to protect civilians from airstrikes by the Syrian government.
Turkey's parliament has approved any incursions the Turkish government sees fit to launch over the border in either Iraq or Syria. Turkey is an important country regionally in regards to the fight against IS. It not only shares borders with Iraq and Syria but its borders are situated near the trouble spots, near where IS have seized territory.
Gun battles and explosions echoed from the embattled Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani on Wednesday, as Islamic State militants detonated a car bomb and new American-led airstrikes hit the northern edge of the town, close to the Turkish border.
A Kurdish official in Kobani, Assi Abdullah, said that despite the aerial bombing, Islamic State fighters had managed to enter new areas of the town and move north, closer to the border.
Kobani ,six miles from the Turkish border to consolidate the territorial gains it has made in Iraq and Syria in recent months.
Militants raised their flag on a building on the eastern outskirts of the Syrian border town of Kobani after an assault of almost three weeks, but the town's Kurdish defenders said they had not reached the city center on Monday.
The assault has forced some 160,000 Syrians to flee and put a strain on Kurdish forces, who have struggled to hold off the extremists. Hundreds more civilians fled Kobani on Monday as the jihadists advanced, according to Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
Kobani has become a crucial battleground in the international fight against ISIL fighters.
Kurds have expressed anger and disappointment over Ankara's policy against ISIS, accusing the government of turning a blind eye to the group and refusing to allow Turkish Kurds to cross the border and fight in Syria.
The capture of Kobani would give ISIS control of a large swath of land bordering Turkey and eliminate a vital pocket of Kurdish resistance. It would also provide a link between the group's territory near the ancient Syrian city of Aleppo and its largest operations base at Raqqa in northeastern Syria.
The fall of Kobani to the Isis extremists represents a huge threat to Turkey’s Kurds, who make up about 20% of the population, and their outlawed army, the PKK or the Kurdistan Workers’ party, which, until a couple of years ago, had been effectively at war with the Turkish state for 30 years.
The United States and five Arab allies launched an aerial campaign against the Islamic State group in Syria on Sept. 23 with the aim to push back the militant group that has declared a self-styled caliphate, or Islamic state, ruled by its brutal interpretation of Islam in territory it has seized across much of Iraq and Syria.. The U.S. has been bombing Islamic State targets in neighboring Iraq since August.
Sources
http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-s-kerry-establishment-of-buffer-zones-in-syria-worth-considering-1412789955
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/08/kobani-isis-turkey-kurds-ypg-syria-erdogan
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/world/middleeast/isis-advances-in-syrian-border-town-of-kobani-despite-airstrikes.html?_r=0
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