At least 18 people have been reported killed as fighting between the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Kurdish militia fighters linked to the PKK moved into its second day, with clashes centering on the streets of Ras al-Ayn.
The FSA seized the town of Ras al-Ayn earlier this week, and then sought to expand into neighboring Kurdish dominated towns nearby, seeing rebel control of the oil-rich region as an important gain over the regime.
The Democratic Union Party (PYD), the Kurds in control of those towns, didn’t see it that way, and after spending so much time staying out of the civil war, they weren’t about to just turn over their towns to the rebels.
Whether this draws the Kurds into the war on the regime’s side of simply leaves them as a third faction trying to keep their towns from being sacked remains to be seen. Either way, the FSA seems to be in for more than they bargained for in this particular part of the Syria-Turkey border.
An "official" statement released to the British 'House of Commons', on behalf of British Foreign Secretary William Hague, announced additional funding for the insurgent/terrorist so-called 'Syrian' "rebels"….'funding' which was:
"on top of the training of citizen journalists, human rights advocates, doctors and Syrian activists"…
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-11/2…
I am glad that the UK government is in the business of "training": 'journalists', 'human rights advocates', and 'activists'…
How much UK government "training" and 'funding' has the terrorist mouthpiece "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" and it's associated affiliates–which AW.C continues to heavily (practically exclusively) rely on for, and pass off as, "information"–received to date?
Just wondering….
Indeed. When will the UK start "funding" Palestinian journalists? Ooops! That wouldn't be kosher now would it?
FSA stands for.., Federally Supported Amenity…, (by EU and USA). The others are terrorist organizations paid and supported by everyone involved.
Boy, the Kurds get it from Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran. They're the world's punching back. Seems like they may have to petition the UN for statehood. Hmmm…let's see…whose country shall we divide to give the biggest and richest part to them?