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Turkey’s foreign minister has confirmed that the country has been providing assistance to Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Peshmerga forces to cross into the Syrian border town of Kobane in order to fight against jihadists.
“We are helping the Peshmerga cross into Kobane. Our discussions are still underway,” Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavusoglu said Oct. 20 during a joint press conference with Tunisian Foreign Minister Mongi Hamdi.
Two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in combat with pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine, Kiev’s military said today, as violence rocked a truce after talks between Kiev and Moscow ended without a breakthrough.
“Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed over the last day, three were injured,” said spokesman Volodymyr Polyovy.
Turkish fighter jets have bombarded positions of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) following militant attacks on military outposts in southeastern Turkey, in a first since the start of the peace process.
The Turkish General Staff ordered the bombing of the PKK’s positions in the Daglica district the southeastern Hakkari province late Oct. 13, Hürriyet has learned. The bombarded targets had reportedly been involved in “assassination, armed incidents and attacks on security bases” after last week’s nationwide protests.
Smoke rises above a residential area after recent shelling near Donetsk airport during fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces.
Pro-Russian separatists claim that shelling has killed three people in the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
The rebel-controlled Donetsk city hall said in a statement on October 11 that “as a result of military actions in Donetsk on October 10 three civilians died and four more were injured and hospitalized.”
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said the besieged Syrian-Turkish border town of Kobani is about to fall into jihadist hands, as it’s in the midst of a fierce battle with Islamic State terrorists, numbering around 9,000 heavily-armed fighters.
The next 24 hours could see 5,000 people dead, according to Kurdish intelligence reports. Since the start of the advance toward the city 400 lives have already been lost.