Hundreds of Kurdish fighters have entered **rthern Syria to help battle jihadists besieging the Kurdish city of Ain al-Arab, a monitor said Tuesday. "At least 800 Kurdish fighters crossed the Turkish-Syrian border to help their comrades in Ain al-Arab (Kobane in Kurdish), which is under total siege by Islamic State jihadists," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. A Kurdish Syrian activist said the flow of fighters came as the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), blacklisted in Turkey as a terrorist organisation, gave orders for Kurdish fighters to move to protect Kobane.
07-16-2014, 10:50 PM
Kurds enter Syria from Turkey to fight jihadists
Hundreds of Kurdish fighters have entered **rthern Syria to help battle jihadists besieging the Kurdish city of Ain al-Arab, a monitor said Tuesday. "At least 800 Kurdish fighters crossed the Turkish-Syrian border to help their comrades in Ain al-Arab (Kobane in Kurdish), which is under total siege by Islamic State jihadists," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. A Kurdish Syrian activist said the flow of fighters came as the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), blacklisted in Turkey as a terrorist organisation, gave orders for Kurdish fighters to move to protect Kobane.
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