Once it engages, it will be interesting whether the stalemate controlling the eastern part and the southern part of the kurdish fighters controlling the west and north, whether that balance of power will shift or not. Its not just a physical battle, theres a political struggle. Ill come back in a second after we hear from the turkish president who says there has been too Much Coalition focus on kobane. Translation i want to stress one important thing about kobane. Why kobane . Why not other towns . Why not iraqi territory, 40 of which is occupied by i. S. I. S. . Why not intervention in these areas, why only in kobane . You know turkish politics well, give us your consensus of about what Recep Tayyip Erdogan was saying, whether it was for the consumption of the turkish public, or whether he has something new to add to the debate. Its for both. Theres a lot of hesitation as to what is taking place across the border in kobane. A lot of turks and the government itself feels that there is
Burkino faso. Virgin flag particular will continue after its spacecraft crashed in california. Lets go to syria where iraqi Peshmerga Kurdish forces have entered kobane, joining hundreds of Syrian Kurdish and opposition fighters to take on Islamic State of iraq and the levant. They have been waiting on the border since wednesday. Reconnaissance teams have been sent over, but now it seems they are ready to start the fight. We have an exclusive report from inside kobane. We are now standing in the western be enables commonly known as kobane. They represent the springboard from which Kurdish Forces are fending off isil attacks who are now in desperate attempt to control these areas and have a firm grip on areas at east. To the right of the northern neighborhoods of kobane, where the high ridges can be seen in the backdrop on these ridges the turkish army and its forces are are closely monitoring the fighting taking place inside the city. The armed groups who have joined the forces are now
In argentina, huge tracts of forest are being cleared. Kurdish Peshmerga Forces have joined the battle to free kobane. Theyre been firing rockets off the back of pickup trucks. Peshmerga forces started crossing the border friday. Theyre helping the syrian kurds as well as other opposition fighters who are already there. Aljazeera has this report from the turkeysyria border. We are a few kilometers away from kobane where the sound of sporadic fighting and shelling has persisted throughout saturday. Behind me is one of the entrances to the town from turkey where the iraq kurdish Peshmerga Forces crossed over late friday and early saturday, bringing with them muchneeded reinforcements for the Syrian Kurdish fighters who have been combating isil. The Peshmerga Forces when they entered the station themselves mainly in the western part of the city, they brought with them semi pickup trucks carrying anti aircraft guns and rocket launchers, bazookas and the like. These were weaponries that the
The country or the region and really focus on afghanistan for multiple tours of language training. The problem is that to the war in afghanistan of a certain size to slightly bent personnel rules to have the program created. Right now the institutions are reverting back to their normal resting place which is to say good for you have for having been an afghan ham an afghan ham but your an afghan ham but your career is done thank you very much are you very much or you would post it to someplace where you will never get the next promotion. Places like iraq and somalia and the sedges of empire we think they need these types of deep subject Matter Expert piece but also the relationships. Most of these countries are based on relationships not in formal situations we have in the west. I think in yemen we need a yemeni hands program. We will be there for a long ti time. Back to one of your first comments about whether its fair not. In many ways especially when theres complete lack of security
Taking over the city of fallujah and my other question is how did you end up winning the trust of the city in order to change it and make it more prosperous even though isis is taking over the city . I think for a lot of a lot of americans they sea ice is taking over iraq and hear about the growth of al qaeda affiliates and theres a sense of what can we do about it . Is this something we just have to live with is a permanent condition of our lives . One reason i wanted to write the book is to show that success is possible. Its not by accident. Its a process that takes place. Theres learning that has to take place as well. This is not an intractable problem. You can do it but it requires local partnerships. The problem is so much of how we remember war or misremember wars purely about combat. Its not how wars are fundamentally finished in this type of work very. I thats the big take away i would say. I would like to add on that thats one of the reasons we wrote this. To get people to un