September 21, 2014|8:51 am
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Syrian Kurds airing with their accouterments afterwards bridge into Turkey at the Turkish-Syrian border, abreast the southeastern boondocks of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, September 20, 2014. About 60,000 Syrian Kurds fled into Turkey in the amplitude of 24 hours, a agent prime abbot said on Saturday, as Islamic State militants bedeviled dozens of villages abutting to the border. Turkey opened a amplitude of the borderland on Friday afterwards Kurdish civilians fled their homes, fearing an approaching advance on the bound boondocks of Ayn al-Arab, additionally accepted as Kobani. A Kurdish administrator on the arena said Islamic State had avant-garde to aural 15 km (9 miles) of the town. Picture taken September 20, 2014.
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DATE IMPORTED:September 20, 2014Displaced bodies from the boyhood Yazidi sect, who fled abandon in the Iraqi boondocks of Sinjar, adoration at their capital angelic temple Lalish in Shikhan September 20, 2014. Followers of an age-old adoration acquired from Zoroastrianism, the Yazidi fled their citizenry in the Sinjar mountains as Islamic State militants, who see them as devil worshippers, bedeviled towns and agitated out accumulation killings in August.
Even as added than 70,000 mostly Kurdish refugees accept fled an advancing abhorrent by the alarm accumulation Islamic State, or ISIS, in northeastern Syria over the aftermost three days, hundreds of Kurdish fighters from Turkey and Iraq accept streamed into Syria to absorber the arena beneath attack.
At atomic 70,000 civilians, mostly Syrian Kurds, accept beyond into Turkey back Friday due to an ISIS aggression in arctic Kobani area, according to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The Kobani breadth borders Turkey.
The UNHCR "is dispatch up its acknowledgment to advice Turkey appear to the aid of … Syrians who beyond into Turkey in the aftermost 24 hours," the bureau said, according to Agence France Presse.
ISIS militants are aloof a few afar from the cardinal arctic bound boondocks of Kobane, and they accept already captured added than 60 villages about the boondocks over the accomplished bristles days. They accept additionally dead at atomic 11 Kurdish civilians, some of them children.
"Kobani is adverse the fiercest and best barbarian advance in its history," The Associated Press quoted Mohammed Saleh Muslim, an official and arch of Syria's Kurdish Free Union, as saying. "Kobani calls on all those who avert accommodating and free ethics ... to angle by Kobani and abutment it immediately. The advancing hours are decisive," he added.
(Photo: Reuters/Ari Jalal) Kurdish Peshmerga fighters affectation with an Islamic State flag, which they pulled bottomward afterwards capturing Mount Batnaya, abreast Zummar September 20, 2014.
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Masoud Barzani, the admiral of Iraq's abundantly free Kurdish region, has warned that the attacks in Kobani "threaten the accomplished absoluteness of the Kurdish nation."
The ISIS aggression has led to several hundred Kurdish fighters alive into Syria, according to the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which receives advice from a arrangement of doctors and activists in Syria.
These accommodate added than 600 fighters from Iraq's Kurdistan Workers' Party, accepted as PKK.
At atomic 27 Kurdish fighters accept absent their lives angry ISIS. However, they accept additionally dead at atomic 37 ISIS militants.
ISIS, or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, is an al-Qaeda offshoot, which wants to anatomy an Islamic emirate in the Levant arena through "jihad." According to the CIA, ISIS has about 31,500 fighters beyond Iraq and Syria.
ISIS is believed to accept hundreds of adopted fighters, including those from the United States and Europe. Its men accept dead hundreds of civilians in Iraq. Numerous associates of the Christian and Yazidi minorities accept additionally been killed, and tens of bags of them accept fled their homes.
ISIS appear a video aftermost anniversary assuming the beheading of a 44-year-old British aid worker, David Haines, the ancestor of two who went to Syria to serve at a refugee camp.
The Sunni alarm accumulation ahead appear two added videos assuming the beheadings of U.S. journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and has threatened to annihilate added Western hostages.
While the United States has launched 183 airstrikes beyond Iraq to activity ISIS militants back August, it has yet to conduct such attacks in Syria. Washington is currently alive on capacity for aggressive activity through an all-embracing coalition.
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