Kurdistan forces are liberating Western Kurdistan

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Syria Crisis: Halabja Collect 70 million dinars for displaced Syrian Kurds

PNA - Information official of the civil society organizations in Halabja (Arslan Abid) in an interview with reporters announced for the collection of at least seventy million dinars through a fundraising campaign for the displaced Syrian Kurds who live in difficult humanitarian conditions, and currently residing in camps in Dahuk province.

For his part, the Mayor of Halabja (Goran Adham) thanked for the efforts of the people of the area, noting that the campaign began in 13/8/2012- 09/09/2012, stressing at the same time the role of the Department of Halabja and non-governmental organizations, personalities and citizens to provide their assistance to refugees Syrian Kurds.

Halabja is a town in Kurdistan region of Iraq.

The town and surrounding district were attacked on March 16, 1988 by former regime of Saddam with bombs, artillery fire, and chemical weapons, the latter of which proved most devastating. At least 5,000 people died as an immediate result of the chemical attack and it is estimated that a further 7,000 people were injured or suffered long term illness. Most of the victims of the attack on the town of Halabja were Kurdish civilians.

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A Correspondent in Afrin announced that Assad warplanes bombed the village Basoth by missiles from a warplane belonging to the system and continued missile that took place near the restaurant door "peace" next to the village, leaving significant damage.

According to informed sources that the Kurdish Saladin battalion of the free Army was stationed in the vicinity of the village of Albasoth news leaked wounded battalion commander Ronnie light injuries a few days ago.

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Kurdish Supreme Council in Syria is planning to establish a military force that would include armed groups from all parties in Syrian Kurdistan.

The move follows an announcement by some deserters of President Bashar al-Assad’s army of the creation of a force known as the Syrian National Army (SNA).

The SNA has apparently called on Kurds to join them.

“We are trying to establish an army for Syrian Kurdistan and are seriously working toward that end,” said Ismael Hama, a member of the Kurdish Supreme Council.

The Supreme Council was formed in July after an agreement between various Syrian Kurdish groups was made in Erbil.

The dominant force in Syrian Kurdistan is now the Democratic Union Party (PYD) who politically and militarily controls the Kurdish areas which Assad’s forces have retreated from to fight rebels in Aleppo and other areas of Syria’s Sunni Arab heartland.

Many perceive the PYD to be close to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) that has been fighting the Turkish state for three decades, demanding political and cultural rights for the country’s Kurds.

Aldar Khalil, a senior leader in the PYD and member of the Supreme Council, told Rudaw that the armed units of his group and other Kurdish parties have agreed to join together as the armed forces of Syrian Kurdistan.

So far, the Kurdish Supreme Council has refused to join the opposition umbrella organization known as the Syrian National Council (SNC) as Kurds are highly suspicious of whether its components would grant Kurdish rights in any post-Assad arrangement.

The Kurds have not also allowed the Free Syrian Army (FSA) to gain access to Kurdish areas. This refusal to allow any interference has brought them the ire of the FSA and SNA but spared the Kurdish areas from the devastation experienced by much of the rest of the country.

“We try to keep Syrian Kurdistan safe from the conflict and try to not become part of the disputes between various groups,” said Khalil. “The Kurdish question in Syria is a particular and different question. We want to have our own administration like the Kurdistan Region (of Iraq).”

“We do not oppose the Syrian opposition or the SNA. We are part of the opposition but our way of struggle is different,” added Khalil. “We cooperate and offer them humanitarian aid to treat the wounded or help refugees cross Kurdistan’s borders. We want our relations to be political and friendly, not military.”

Earlier this month, around 400 officers and soldiers who had defected from the Syrian Army gathered inside Turkey, near the Syrian border, to establish the SNA. The new army includes the FSA and all other armed groups currently fighting the Assad regime.

The SNA is said to be the result of a French-Turkish agreement encouraged by the U.S. and Arab countries.

Khalil said the Syrian opposition “regularly” calls on the Kurds to join the FSA, and now the new army.

“But we have told them that although we are all in opposition to the Syrian regime, we do not want them to come to the Kurdish areas because we do not need any armed forces and can protect our areas,” he said.

The PYD’s armed forces had previously said they would not allow any armed elements to operate in the areas they control. The group did not even allow a force of several hundred Kurds who had defected from the Assad army and been trained in Iraqi Kurdistan to return to Syria.

PYD officials say they do not want foreign aid and will not allow the Kurdish areas of Syria to become a battleground.

For his part, Ismael Hama, also a senior official at the Kurdish Democratic Party of Syria, said he was not aware of the formation of a new army, adding that Kurds would not want to join any such group.

“We want to form a Kurdish army and once we do that then we can negotiate with the Syrian National Army,” said Hama.

He added that the Kurds hope to continue the Cairo talks with the rest of Syrian opposition to reach a “clear agreement.”

http://www.rudaw.net/english/news/syria/5189.html

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AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands -- The armed units of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) known as the (YPG) killed 3 Syrian soldiers, wounded two, and seized 50 weapons on Saturday, in what they called a revenge attack.

The attack came two days after Syrian forces killed 21 Kurdish civilians and wounded many others in the Aleppo neighborhood of Sheikh Maksud.

YPG leaders claimed on Friday that they had driven regime forces out of Kobane city.

A video footage posted on Youtube showed civilian Kurds and members of the YPG overrunning security buildings in Efrin.

According to PYD’s Foreign Representative Alan Semo, the YPG captured soldiers, disarmed them and drove them out of Efrin.

Furthermore, in the city of Derik, a few kilometers from the Turkish border, the YPG captured 5 Syrian soldiers and freed them after taking away their weapons.

The YPG had earlier warned the Syrian regime to stop ‘provoking and targeting Kurds to drag the country into a civil war’.

Although state troops had mostly withdrawn from Kurdish areas controlled by the PYD, a security facility had remained in Efrin with a few personnel who stayed indoors most of the time.

A 50-year- old man, told Now Lebanon that the security men called the PYD’s checkpoint whenever they needed bread or water.

An activist told Rudaw that the security forces remaining inside the building created rumors that the PYD was allowing the Syrian regime representatives to stay in the city.

But the PYD seems to have taken a hostile attitude towards Syrian security forces after their controlled-area of Sheikh Maksud in Aleppo came under devastating fire on Thursday.

In its demonstrations, the PYD has called on Kurds and Arabs to join the YPG instead of fleeing to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq or Turkey.

Separately, the Union of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK), which enjoys close ties with the PYD, condemned the attack in a statement published, saying, “Kurds should respond to this provocation by self-defense.”

Thursday’s attack raised questions among Kurds as to why the regime attacked the PYD-controlled district, given PYD’s alleged association with the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

PYD’s official Semo told Rudaw, “the brutal regime forces target the relatively quiet Kurdish area to provoke and drag them into the violence and destabilize the peaceful harmony where thousands of civilians (Arab) refugees who live with Kurds in the Kurdish controlled and safe area.”

The Kurdish news website Welati reported that fighting had occurred between the YPG and Assad’s forces in Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood of Aleppo on Friday where the 3 Syrian soldiers were killed.

In an earlier report Welati claimed that the regime is trying to “provoke tensions and anxiety in Kurdish areas by incursions of security forces and taking young Kurds to compulsory military service in order to create tensions and violence.”

Despite the YPG attacks Syrian security forces and the Shabiha militia are still present in the largest Kurdish city of Qamishli.

Meanwhile, there are reports of the Assad regime arming several Arab tribes outside Qamishli to confront the Kurds in case of an emergency.

http://www.rudaw.net/english/news/syria/5180.html

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Is border between rojava and bashur open or close ??

[Rando]

Is border between rojava and bashur open or close ??

i think its open. since if i remember corectly,i heard a kurd say he goes back and forth freely between S.K and W.K.
maybe someone can confirm?