Ive been challenging those in power asking tough questions demanding jobs. As conflicts intensify ill be meeting with kid players on the ground in the centers of. Cutting through the rhetoric holding the powerful to account past the conflict zone. Conflict zone with Tim Sebastian on t. W. This week on world stories. Camerons refugee news a conflict forgotten in. China pitching up at the campus. We begin in syria where its estimated that some two thousand fighters belonging to socalled Islamic State are sheltering in a small town near the iraqi border. Kurdish arabic militias are preparing an attack. These recruits are here to liberate the last areas in syria held by Islamic State in just a few days the young men from the Syrian Democratic forces will be transferred to the front about fifty kilometers away. Marching shooting practice and tactics the u. S. Estimates that up to two thousand as a still entrenched in hygiene. The twenty four year old commander of the Kurdish Militia is rall
led coalition has been supporting the kurdish arab militias in their fight against the so-called islamic state with the air raids weapons vehicles and training. the offensive against the lost iowa stronghold operation round up has been running for for weeks now but the militias a making slow progress fighters have dug a tunnel system under the city set up combat positions in residential buildings and mines everywhere. isis is brutal they ve basically been trapped. at the structures they can and they ve laid out minefields everything is basically you know rigged as we d say so that s a challenge that s all we take most of our casualties we ve trained you know. the techniques we ve got vehicles but it s a challenge. everybody appreciates. the world