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bemildred

(90,061 posts) Wed Jun 10, 2015, 10:51 AM Jun 2015

Thousands flee into Turkey from Syria as battle rages

Thousands of people crossed from Syria into Turkey on Wednesday to flee a battle between the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and Kurdish militants for the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad.

A Reuters photographer at the scene said many of them were women and children and they had entered Turkey through a make-shift border crossing between official gates. Turkish gendarmerie officers oversaw the transfer, he said.

ISIS is in control of the border town in Hasaka province. The group last week launched a counter-offensive in the provincial capital, Hasaka city, that is divided into zones run separately by the government of President Bashar Assad and Kurdish factions.

"There are 2,000 people today that are being processed," a Turkish official said, explaining that they undergo registration and health checks before being allowed to enter.

http://www.dailysabah.com/nation/2015/06/10/thousands-flee-into-turkey-from-syria-as-battle-rages

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Thousands flee into Turkey from Syria as battle rages (Original Post) bemildred Jun 2015 OP

IS blows up Syria gas pipeline serving capital: monitor bemildred Jun 2015 #1

Thousands flee into Turkey from Syria as Kurds fight ISIL bemildred Jun 2015 #2

Strange how ISIS attacks the enemies of Turkey and Israel Jesus Malverde Jun 2015 #3

bemildred

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1. IS blows up Syria gas pipeline serving capital: monitor

Reply to bemildred (Original post)

Wed Jun 10, 2015, 10:53 AM

Jun 2015

Jihadists from the Islamic State group blew up a pipeline feeding natural gas from eastern Syria to the suburbs of the capital Damascus early Wednesday morning, a monitor said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said IS blew up the pipeline near the T-4 military airport in the east of central Homs province shortly after midnight.

"This pipeline was used to carry gas into the suburbs of Damascus and Homs to generate electricity and provide heating in individual homes," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.

IS has seized a number of oil and gas fields in Homs province, most recently during its offensive on the ancient city of Palmyra.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/06/10/is-blows-syria-gas-pipeline-serving-capital-monitor.html

bemildred

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2. Thousands flee into Turkey from Syria as Kurds fight ISIL

Reply to bemildred (Original post)

Wed Jun 10, 2015, 10:55 AM

Jun 2015

http://photo.bgnnews.com/thousands-flee-into-turkey-from-syria-as-kurds-fight-isil-fotogaleri-6729/3

Jesus Malverde

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3. Strange how ISIS attacks the enemies of Turkey and Israel

Reply to bemildred (Original post)

Wed Jun 10, 2015, 11:26 AM

Jun 2015

The Palestinian camp at Yarmouk, the kurds, Hezbollah, and Assad.

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