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Topic Started: 18th November 2012 - 07:31 PM (1,216,694 Views)
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QAMISHLI, Syrian Kurdistan,— Following the Ras al-Ain battle, the Kurdish leadership in northern Syria is getting ready to fight an imminent battle in the Kurdish city of Qamishli (Western Kurdistan). Preparations are currently underway in Turkey to infiltrate the Kurdish city.

The Ras al-Ain battle was the first real infiltration of Kurds through the Kurdish border that stretches from Afrin, northwest of Aleppo, to the city of Dêrek, located in the easternmost part of the country, straddling the Iraqi, Syrian and Turkish borders.

Three hundred militants from the Islamic jihadist group Ghurabaa al-Sham have entered the strategically located town and have stationed themselves in Arab neighborhoods without entering the zones of the Kurdish Popular Protection Committees affiliated with the Democratic Union Party (PYD) — the main Kurdish power in western Kurdistan.

The Ghurabaa al-Sham group is one of the Islamic Syrian groups that fought alongside al-Qaeda in Iraq and was used by Syrian intelligence in the war against the American occupation before its leader Mahmoud Gul Agassi — also known as Abu Qaqaa — was killed in a mosque in Aleppo in September 2007. Agassi was killed at the hands of one of those who returned from Iraq. The assassin was declared an infidel by the group, which then shed his blood after accusing him of colluding with the Syrian government.

According to a Kurdish leader, Turkish cadres have sent 1,000 Syrian opposition militants to a camp near the city of Nusaybin, adjacent to the Syrian-Turkish border and located only three kilometers from the nearest neighborhoods of the city of Qamishli on the Syrian side.

Nusaybin, which was annexed by Turkey in 1929 under the French mandate, witnessed a massive exodus to nearby rural areas for fear of shelling on the city, whose population numbers 150,000 people, mostly Kurds.

According to a Syrian Kurdish opposition leader, the battle for the strategic city of Qamishli is imminent. The PYD, which is trying to remove itself from the battlefield, will have to change its position and send back-up troops to the city to defend it.

The city is home to 180,000 people and is considered to be the largest Kurdish cluster in the region and the PYD’s stronghold. It is run by a national council of Western Kurdistan that operates under the supervision of the Kurdish National Council (KNC), of which half of its members are affiliated with 16 Kurdish opposition parties and share in the decision-making process. On the other hand, the security and military forces deployed in and around the city belong exclusively to the PYD ranks.

The Kurdish leader added that after launching the first bombs against Syrian army sites in Ras al-Ain, the Turks prompted armed jihadist groups to enter the city, paving the way for other forces trying to move from Nusaybin and travel five kilometers across the border.

These forces will weaken the PYD-dominated Kurdish military wall and prevent its forces from moving in the area, gradually opening it to all armed groups,www.ekurd.net including the Free Syrian Army (FSA) as well as jihadist groups such as the al-Nusra Front and Ghurabaa al-Sham. The Syrian army will be exhausted and forced to retreat. However, the main goal of the attack on Qamishli is to control the city’s airport, located at few kilometers from the Turkish border, from which the armed opposition can be supplied directly in Syrian territory.

The US operations room in Antakya has indicated that the FSA has launched attacks to win control of airports near Aleppo, Idlib, Taftanaz and Meng. However, the FSA failed to capture key strategic airbases which launch Syrian helicopters and bombers.

Along with jihadists, Turks are also playing the game to restore their old relationships with the region’s tribes. The Kurdish security apparatus has begun making extensive contacts with Arab tribes scattered around Qamishli in order to build a united front against the PYD and the remnants of the Syrian army that are still deployed in the region.

Jihadist forces stationed in Nusaybin have launched negotiations with Muhammad al-Fares, leader of the Tayy tribe, which has 10,000 individuals living in the southern part of the city. The Syrian army started to evacuate some of its sites in the city, and the eastern barrier was removed at the request of the Kurds.
Fares used to have good relations with the authorities in Damascus until recently. Fares also had good relations with the Kurdish National Council, despite the fact that he was at the head of Arab groups that looted Kurdish stores in the city during the Qamishli uprising in 2004.

Turks and jihadist groups have supplied Arab tribes in the villages of Ghamr, Tannouriya al-Ghamr, Um Fursan and Hulat al-Ghamr with weapons. These villages are located on the eastern hills overlooking Qamishli and lie in the heart of the plains, where they are difficult to defend.

According to a Turkish leader, Turks are trying to drag the Arabs of Ghamr into battles. These tribes came from the Euphrates basin to Qamishli, following the construction of the Euphrates Dam. They were accommodated in 40 villages stretching along 240 kilometers, from Derek to Sari Kanye, along the section of the Turkish-Syrian border known as the Arab belt.

The Turks have also been trying for weeks to gain the support of the Shammar tribes — led by Hamidi Bin Daham al-Hadi — and the Shammar al-Jarba branch, which maintains good relations with Saudi Arabia. However, its leader is still on the fence and has complained of Kurdish infiltration of Western Kurdistan.

He said that the wing of the Yekiti Party led by Ismail Hami, as well as the wing of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (Azadi) led by Mustafa Juma, are in contact with the Turks and are working with them through the KNC. He added that they may participate in the battle, in addition to the Salahuddin battalion supervised by Salah Badr al-Din, which mostly consists of Kurdish members.

The Kurds are being subjected to political and military blackmail over the battle they fought in Ras al-Ain, and the battle to enter Qamishli, which is currently under preparation.

During the battle of Ras al-Ain, PYD forces did not intervene in the fights between Ghurabaa al-Sham and the Syrian army, out of fear that they would be accused of siding with the regime. They are already accused of that, because they did not take part in the fighting in Aleppo and prevented the armed opposition from entering their areas. The Ghurabaa al-Sham also exhibited great cleverness by not attacking the Kurdish neighborhoods, which facilitated the fall of the town.

However, the neutral Kurdish position, fearful of accusations of cooperation with the regime, led to the loss of Ras al-Ain and the penetration of the Kurdish wall.

The Kurdish leaders fear that some of the refugees in Deir al-Zour, who amount to nearly 12,000 families, would join the attack force that is under preparation.

To avoid once again facing the dilemma of choosing between fighting to defend the Kurdish towns and cities under the pretext that the attackers are targeting the Syrian army, and the inevitable fall of these towns and cities if the Syrian army is defeated at the hands of jihadist groups, a Syrian Kurdish leader said: “We tried to remove this excuse from the attackers by controlling the area in which units of the Syrian army are still stationed. We told the regime officials in the area that the exit of their units from the area would make it easier for us to defend it politically on the grounds that it does not have a military presence by the regime, while maintaining the service institutions of the state and presence of Syrian flags.”

The Kurdish leader added, “The directors of security branches and military officials asked to stay and take part in defending the city. We asked them to get out of the city and remove the checkpoints, but they are still stationed at the airport. A battalion consisting of 1,000 Syrian soldiers headed to Ras al-Ain as helicopters continued to survey the area. We believe that they will not be able to move freely in the area without the heavy use of aircraft. Thus, in recent days the Turks have deployed a network of missiles and air-defense systems.”

The Kurds persuaded the regime security branches to withdraw from Derek, as they had from the strategic town of Tel Tamer, which lies 40 km from Ras al-Ain along the highway to Aleppo. A meeting held at the church in the city of 50,000 residents led to the formation of self-defense units.

On whether the Kurds and popular protection units are capable of defending Qamishli and preventing its downfall, the Kurdish leader said: “We will not repeat the mistake of Ras al-Ain. We will fight in the city, whether or not the Syrian army units fight in the city or withdraw from the airport. If the Turks do not pave the way for an artillery attack on Qamishli as they did in Ras al-Ain, we will be able to defend the area. There is no other choice but to defend it, because seizing it would lead to the dismemberment of western Kurdistan, open the door to attacking Afrin and transform the whole region to a battlefield, which is what we have so far tried to avoid.”

In other news — citing AFP, AP and Reuters — Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Abdul Latif al-Zayani said in a statement that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold talks in Riyadh today [Nov. 14] with his counterparts in the GCC on the conflict in Syria. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that Tehran will set up a meeting between the parties to the Syrian conflict next Sunday [Nov. 18] to hold a “national dialogue.”

Paris has bucked the consensus of its European allies by formally declaring its recognition of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, confirming that it “will consider arming the opposition once a transitional government is formed.”

Washington considered the coalition the "legitimate representative of the Syrian people.” However, it avoided recognizing it as a “transitional government,” as France did.

In an interview with the TV channel Russia Today, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said that the new coalition is an American-Qatari project that is being used by external forces to destroy Syria.

Copyright ©, respective author or news agency, al-monitor.com | assafir.com

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Scary but very informative article.
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18th November 2012 - 08:05 PM
Scary but very informative article.
I'm sure the kurds there will handle it B-)
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Pictures of Western Kurds celebrating their liberation

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Feel free to post more pictures. SKF
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A member in the SNC called on KRG to send in the trained peshmergas to take care of the security of kurdish areas.

Ibrahim Murad a leader in the SNC urged Kurdistan authorities to send in the strain trained Kurds to take control the security situation in the north part if the country where the Kurds live.

http://www.nrttv.com/dreje.aspx?jimare=23258
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Two armed groups affiliated to Free Syrian Army have once again attacked the people in the city of Serêkaniyê in West Kurdistan on Monday, killing City Council President Abid Xelil and one young demonstrator. The groups were pushed out of the city following an intervention by People’s Defense Units (YPG) forces. Clashes are reported to be continuing in some areas.

According to reports received, armed groups tried to prevent the march organized in the city by High Kurdish Council which was established last July.

Two armed groups, named El Sam and Nasra, opened fire to City Council President Abid Xelil and a group of Kurdish security forces who asked them to give way to the march. Abid Xelil and a youngster died, three members of Kurdish security forces were wounded in the attack which was immediately responded by YPG forces.

Thousands of people from Dirbesiyê, Qamişlo and Amude are currently making their way to the city where many members of the armed groups are reported to have been killed in clashes with YPG forces.

Speaking about the incident, Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) Council Member Dr. Ciwan Mistefa said that the armed groups had said they wouldn’t allow entrance into the city of Serêkaniyê.

Since hundreds of members of Free Syrian Army entered the city over Turkey on 8 November, the city has been bombed several times by forces of the Syrian regime, killing at least ten civilians and wounding around 70 others in the last one week. Around 50 houses were demolished in the attacks which forced eleven thousand people migrate from the region.

A number of separate armed groups have appeared in Syria where the fight against Assad regime generally goes under the name of 'Free Syrian Army'. There isn’t an obvious true coordination among these armed groups which are active in many areas including villages. Supported by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, these groups aim to increase their activity in the region.

Regional states and alliances in the Middle East, Turkey in particular, have recently been resorting to threats, attacks and contra-activities to prevent and suppress the Kurdish struggle for freedom and its recent achievements in the region where they have taken power in a number of cities.



ANF / Serêkaniyê

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Free Syrian Army-linked groups suffer heavy losses

Two armed groups said to be affiliated to the Free Syrian Army suffered heavy losses on Monday when clashes broke out between these groups and People’s Defense Units (YPG) forces in the West Kurdistan city of Serêkaniyê. The armed groups attacked the people in the city as they took to the streets for the rally organized by the Supreme Kurdish Council.

According to reports received, bodies of 14 dead members of these groups were delivered to their side by YPG forces, while at least 12 others are reported to have been killed in clashes which are reported to have lasted all day. Among those killed are reportedly three leaders of the El Sam armed group, Ali Aksud, Mecid Abdullah and Fair Haci Rahim.

The operation launched by the YPG in the area is reported to be still on.

YPG members Xalid Ömer Hamo (31), Salah Eyo Şexo (40) and Ehmed Sîno Qewas (29) and Kurdish security forces member Sileman Sino (28) lost their life in clashes.

Since hundreds of members of Free Syrian Army entered the city over Turkey on 8 November, the city has been bombed several times by forces of the Syrian regime, killing at least ten civilians and wounding around 70 others in the last one week. Around 50 houses were demolished in the attacks which forced eleven thousand people migrate from the region.

http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=5396
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I hate the arabic language so badly. They should have spoken kurdish, even if it was a message to our enemies *cool
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I think it's also aimed at the SNC that's why :)
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November 22, 2012

RAS Al-AIN, Syrian Kurdistan,— Hundreds of Kurdish militiamen massed in the Syrian border Kurdish town of Ras al-Ain in western Kurdistan on Thursday in a mounting standoff with mainly jihadist Arab-led rebels who had seized much of the town from government forces, a watchdog said.

It was the latest in a string of largely peaceful drives for control of mainly Kurdish inhabited areas of the northeast and northwest that neighboring Turkey fears has given succor to the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) it has been fighting for nearly three decades.

The Turkey-backed rebels of the Free Syrian Army accuse the Democratic Union Party (PYD) of having links to the PKK, which has been fighting for self-rule just across the border in southeastern Turkey since 1984, and charge that it is in cahoots with the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

The PYD insists its fighters are entirely Syrian but Washington has backed Ankara in insisting that Syria will not be allowed to become a rear base for the PKK in the face of the 20-month uprising against Assad's iron-fisted rule.

The standoff between the Kurds and the Arab-led rebels -- most of whom the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said were drawn from hardline Islamists opposed to the new opposition coalition recognized some Arab and Western states -- highlighted a growing dilemma for the rebels' supporters.

Some 200 fighters from the Al-Qaeda loyalist Al-Nusra Front and 100 from the allied Ghuraba al-Sham advanced on Ras al-Ain,www.ekurd.net backed by three tanks they had captured from the Syrian army, the Observatory said.

They were faced by 400 Kurdish militiamen in the northeastern town which has already been largely deserted by its residents, thousands of whom have poured across the border into Turkey, the Britain-based watchdog and residents said.

“Most residents have fled, and the few who remain are living in fear, in poor humanitarian conditions,” one of them, Abu Mohammed, told AFP.

“Because of the fighting and bombing, water and electricity have been cut off completely.”

On Monday, at least 34 people were killed in fighting between the mainly Islamist fighters and the Kurdish militia. Most of the dead were on the rebel side.

Copyright ©, respective author or news agency, AFP

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YPG: We clear Serikani off the bandit groups

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NEWSDESK, — The Units of Defence Forces (YPG) tackled the threat posed by the groups sponsored by Turkey in Serikani who killed Abid Xalid, the head of the city’s People Assembly.

After the killing of dozens of those groups YPG has enhanced its presence in the region and promoted its forces from brigade to battalion entitling it as Abid Xalid’s.

The commander of Erdal Martyr Brigade of YPG, Dijwar told Firat News Agency that; “the resistance of Erdal Martyr Brigade in Serikani did not allow the bandits, who are sponsored by Turkey to thwart attempts made by the Kurds to achieve their rights, to implement their dirty plots.”

Pointing to the expulsion of Turkey sponsored groups from Serkikani, Dijwar said; “Our resistance have had a great impact on the Kurdish people. With this triumphant, our brigade showed that it has influenced the Kurdish youth to a great extent. And in turn, it opens the way for the further participation of youth in our ranks.”

Dijwar said that the Brigade of Martyr Erdal has evaluated the current state and decided to establish the Battalion of Martyr Abid. “From now on,” he said, “We will promote our resistance through Martyr Abid Battalion also. This is in solidarity for the martyrs of Serikani. We pledge to keep Serkani liberated and clear it off the bandit groups.”

Reinstating their pledges with the Kurdish people Diwjar said; “We do not accept an inch of our father land to be occupied. We pledge to scarify whatever we have for the freedom of our country and our national values.”

Source: http://rojhelat.info/en/?p=4487
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Now that's what i like to hear :kflag:
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23rd November 2012 - 01:01 AM
I think it's also aimed at the SNC that's why :)
Yea, but they should have spoken kurdish. That would teach the bastards, that we are not a part of their doomed country *coolAnd would also confuse them quite alot :lol:
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Yes I agree :)
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Syria Kurds join forces in rebel standoff

TWO main Kurdish groups have agreed to join forces in a standoff with hundreds of Islamist rebels in northeastern Syria, a Syrian Kurdish representative and an activist say.

Hundreds of fighters loyal to the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) - which has close ties to Turkey's rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - have been locked in fierce battles with fighters of the jihadist Al-Nusra Front and allied Ghuraba al-Sham group in Ras al-Ain on the border with Turkey.

The agreement sets the stage for an expanded conflict in the area between Islamist rebels opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Syrian Kurdish forces.

"We initially agreed on forming these (joint) forces that do not belong to any side, and discussions are ongoing now" in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, Mohammed Rasho, a representative of the People's Council of Western Kurdistan, which is close to the PYD, told AFP.


Talks on the formation of the joint forces between the People's Council of Western Kurdistan and the Kurdish National Council, which comprises a number of Syrian Kurdish parties, began three days ago, Rasho said, adding that they took place under the supervision of the presidency of Iraqi Kurdistan.


An activist who identified himself as Havidar, meanwhile, said: "The two Kurdish national councils in western Kurdistan (Syria) have agreed in Iraq to create a united military force, bringing together PYD forces and other Kurdish dissidents" in Syria.

"Since the Free Syrian Army forces came to Kurdish areas, especially Ras al-Ain," there was in the beginning "an understanding that they would limit their deployment to Arab areas," said Rasho.

But after some time, rebel forces burned Kurdish flags that had been raised, and "clashes between us and them occurred in Kurdish areas," he said.

Rasho said rebel groups - including the Tawhid Brigade, the main opposition formation in Aleppo, Ghuraba al-Sham and "sometimes" the Al-Nusra Front - "stand against Kurdish citizens".

On July 11, the Kurdish National Council met in Iraq with the People's Council of Western Kurdistan and decided to form the Supreme Kurdish Council.

Friday's agreement was announced a day after the Ghuraba al-Sham called in a video posted on the internet for Islamist volunteers to flock to Ras al-Ain for a drive on the provincial capital, Hasakeh, where the population is majority Kurdish.

"We of the Ghuraba al-Sham battalion call on the (mainstream rebel) Free Syrian Army and the mujahideen to advance towards Ras al-Ain. Increase our numbers so that we can free the city of Hasakeh," an unidentified rebel commander said in the footage, standing among some 50 fighters.

"And we warn all those who stand in the way of this revolt... especially the PYD and the PKK, and any other armed group, against taking any action that contradicts the path of the revolution," he added.

Syria's Arab-led rebels accuse the PYD of being in cahoots with Assad's regime.

Northern and northeastern Syria are home to the majority of the country's two million Kurds.

In July, the army withdrew from majority Kurdish areas, leaving the ethnic group's militia to fend for the minority's safety.

Although Syria's Kurds are opposed to the Assad regime, most have sought to remain neutral in the armed rebellion seeking to topple him.

Over time, they have been dragged into the fighting, after rebel assaults on majority Kurdish areas in key northern provinces.

Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/syria-kurds-join-forces-in-rebel-standoff/story-fn3dxix6-1226523172402




Great news! :waveflag:NKF
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the FSA already announced those who have entered Sare Kaynia are NOT FSA rebels, they wave a black flag saying no god but allah, they were sent in by turks, so its obvious they are not FSA.
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great news indeed, someone show it to ssc gangs make em get upset again.
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PYD and KNC unite and Peshmerga entered WK

According to this article, the PYD and KNC known as the High Supreme council have now come to agreements to administrate WK together and ask for Federal region.

YPG and Peshmerga are now directly run by the Supreme council.

http://rudaw.net/kurdish/index.php/rojava/18543.html

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Peshmerga marches in Qamishlo



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Demo in Tirpe Spî

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I can see Kerdogan is trying to be the caliph by sending in Islamists.
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Kurdish Fighters and Syrian Rebels Announce Fragile Ceasefire

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The People's Defense Units (YPG) announced in a statement on Friday that they have reached a truce with the Syrian Islamist groups Jabhat al-Nusra and Ghuraba' al-Sham after 3 days of fighting in Serêkaniyê.

“Today at 16.30 a ceasefire was declared in Serekaniye (Ras al-Ayn) after a request by armed groups and friendly groups. [The] Ceasefire was declared on our terms: Armed groups must leave and the creation of a Peoples Council from all ethnicities,” read the YPG statement.

According to this statement, the truce is for is for 2 days. “If our terms are not met until then, we will continue to fight them,” read the statement.

The YPG is the armed wing of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and it controls the east and the northern parts of the city of Serêkaniyê, while the Syrian rebel factions control the south and the west as well as the Turkish border crossing.

YGP fighters have clashed with the Syrian rebels in the past several days. They want the rebel factions to leave the area.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Thursday there were renewed clashes between the YPG and the jihadist groups Jabhat al-Nusra and Ghuraba' al-Sham that resulted in the death of 9 combatants, 8 from the Nusra front and 1 YPG fighter.

On Wednesday, the YPG sources and the Kurdish news agency Firat News claimed that armed groups had brought 50 vehicles and seven tanks from the Turkish border to Serêkaniyê, igniting new confrontations.

According to a PYD statement, reinforcements entered the city after negotiations to stop the fighting had failed. In two days of fighting that started last week, it is believed that at least 54 people have been killed.

“Everybody was shocked by the intervention of seven tanks and armored vehicles from the Turkish side of the border and started bombarding Kurdish villages and areas randomly in order to terrorize/ displace citizens,” PYD Executive Council said in a statement.

The SOHR reported earlier that 400 Kurdish fighters had come from across Syria on Wednesday to reinforce the YPG, while 200 members of the Nusra front came from Tal Abayd, and more than 100 fighters and 3 tanks commanded by Ghuraba' al-Sham went into the city.

On Thursday, the Ghuraba’ al-Sham battalion warned the PYD in a Youtube statement that was translated by Al Jazeera English, saying, "We warn all those who stand against the revolution. Mainly the PYD and the PKK from carrying out any counterrevolutionary act. They must withdraw from Ras al-Ayn and stay away from any confrontation with our fighters,”

But YPD leaders are adamant that the Syrian armed groups must leave the area. Also, the Friday ceasefire comes after an announcement by the YPG that their fighters had killed 25 Syrian rebels, wounding more than 20, and destroying 3 vehicles.

The Syrian armed groups claim that they want to take over the oil-rich Hasakah province through Ras al-Ayn, but it is unlikely that the Kurdish political parties would allow them to enter these areas without a fight.

On Nov. 21, the PYD leadership called on people “to adhere to their land, their homeland and defend the sanctities.”

Source: http://www.rudaw.net/english/news/syria/5463.html
Edited by Qandil, 24th November 2012 - 07:32 PM.
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Peshmerga in west Kurdistan? Sure about time! SKF
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Did all the 1600 peshmerga enter Rojava Kurdistan?
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