PYD: Kobanê defended human values against the enemies of humanity

YD (Democratic Union Party) said Rojava has become a sample with regards to the achievement of a free and shared life and a common fate.

Sunday, November 1, 2015 11:30 AM

KOBANÊ - ANF

PYD (Democratic Union Party) has released a statement to mark November 1 World Kobanê Day.

Calling attention to the embracement of the historic Kobanê resistance by the international community, the statement by PYD Party Assembly pointed to the critical changes and developments taking place in Syria and the Middle East, saying; “Within this process, Rojava has become a sample with regards to the achievement of a free and shared life and a common fate.”

PYD emphasised that the historic Kobanê resistance witnessed epics by YPG/YPJ forces during their battle against ISIS gangs, noting that; "As has been seen by everyone, it was not a town or a land defended in Kobanê, but rather all the human values against the enemies of humanity.

Remarking that Kobanê victory cannot be evaluated as a military accomplishment alone, the statement by PYD said; "The major victory achieved in Kobanê has been the victory of peace over terror, and the victory of the revolutionary mindset over reactionism, vengefulness and occupation. This is the very reason why Kobanê was embraced by the world humanity and November 1 became the World Kobanê Day owning this resistance. This is a solidarity and support rarely seen in history."

PYD congratulated all the Kurdish people in four parts of Kurdistan and the peoples of entire Rojava, Syria and the world on World Kobanê Day.

Noting that the fair demands of the Syrian peoples remain for a change against the despotic Baath regime, PYD said this struggle of the people will enable the needed democratic change in Syria and the Middle East.

Democratic Union Party ended its statement by reiterating their promise to carry the struggle to victory in loyalty to the martyrs that sacrificed their lives for the land of Kobanê.

yrian Observatory for Human Rights: 8 Explosive barrels hit Daraya

Reef Dimashq province: The warplanes raided Duma city in eastern Ghouta, reports of losses. regime forces fired shells on Khan al-Shekh camp, Rose to 8 the number of explosive barrels fell on Daraya since this morning, no reports of losses.

Regime’s helicopters drop around 30 barrel bombs on Darayya and bombing the outskirts of Damascus

Rif Dimashq Province:
Two fighters from the Islamic factions were killed during clashes against the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them in the Eastern Ghouta, while the regime forces bombed areas in the town of Arbin in the Eastern al-Ghouta, also it rose to 29 the number of barrel bombs dropped by helicopters on areas in the city of Darayya in the Western Ghouta, while places in al-Marj area in the Eastern Ghouta had an aerial bombardment and shelling by the regime forces, which led to the death of a woman and at least two children and others were wounded, while the regime forces opened heavy machineguns fire on places in the vicinity of the ??water resources area near Harasta in the Eastern Ghouta, also the helicopters dropped barrel bombs on areas in the town of Khan al-Shih and the farms surrounding it in the Western Ghouta and other places in al-Shiyah area near Muadamiyat al-Sham in the Western Ghouta, no information about injuries.
Damascus Province:
The regime forces bombed areas in Jobar neighborhood at the outskirts of the capital, which has witnessed during the last days clashes between the regime forces supported by NDF and Hezbollah against Islamic Factions and Al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in the Levant).

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Reuters: Islamic State takes Syrian town as fighting looks set to intensify

BEIRUT | BY JOHN DAVISON AND TOM PERRY

Women walk past damaged buildings along a street in the old city of Homs June 3, 2015.

REUTERS/OMAR SANADIKI

Islamic State fighters drove Syrian government forces from a western town on Sunday, a monitoring group reported, as fighting escalated despite a flurry of diplomatic activity and talks between regional rivals.

Syrian parties to the multi-sided conflict said they saw no end to fighting between rebels and the government despite talks in Vienna on Friday that included Iran for the first time.
Iran’s supreme leader meanwhile said elections should be held to end the war, echoing a proposal by Russia that has been dismissed by President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents as a ruse by his allies to keep him in power.

It all underlines the intractable state of the four-year-long war that has killed 250,000 people and driven more than half the population from their homes, causing a refugee crisis in neighbouring states and Europe.
Talks between world powers in Vienna on Friday adjourned with calls for a nationwide ceasefire but key differences remained between rivals backing opposing sides.
The war has entered an even more violent phase in the month since Russia began air strikes in support of Assad. Differences over his future remain the main obstacle in the way of diplomatic efforts.
While the United States and Russia back rival sides in the war between the government and rebels in western Syria, both are also waging separate campaigns against the Islamic State group that controls wide areas of the east and the north.
Islamic State, which is separately fighting both the Syrian army and rebels in western Syria, has launched several attacks on government-held areas since Damascus launched a new offensive against it east of Aleppo, backed by Russian air strikes.
In a fierce assault that began by detonating two suicide car bombs, Islamic State militants took the town of Maheen in the southwest of Homs province from government forces, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
Some 50 fighters on the government side were killed or wounded, and clashes raged afterwards on the outskirts of a mostly Christian town nearby, Sadad, it said.
Islamic State issued a statement claiming the advance, which brought it within 20 km (13 miles) of the north-south highway linking Damascus to Syria’s other main cities Homs, Hama and Aleppo. Syrian state media made no mention of the attack.
The Observatory’s Rami Abdulrahman said the attack might have been a response to pressures the group is under elsewhere.
On the other side of Syria in the northeastern province of Hasaka, Islamic State is facing a new offensive launched by a recently formed U.S.-backed rebel alliance.
The Observatory reported fierce fighting between the rebel alliance, including the Kurdish YPG militia, and Islamic State fighters in the area of al-Houl near the Iraqi border.
The United States says it will step up its fight against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, having decided to station special forces in Syria to support rebels fighting the jihadists, and to position more U.S. jets in Turkey and expand air strikes.
Air strikes by Turkish and U.S. aircraft in Syria on Saturday killed more than 50 Islamic State militants, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency said on Sunday.
LONG BATTLE AHEAD
Most of the recent attacks by the Syrian army, which is backed by Russian air strikes and allied fighters from Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, have focused on insurgent groups other than Islamic State.
Several Western military officers attending a security conference this week in Bahrain said that before any political progress can be made, and ahead of new international talks set for within two weeks, rebels and government forces will both look to make gains on the ground and increase their leverage.
A Syrian army source said that Saudi Arabia and Turkey’s continued support for rebels meant battles would not stop.
“The battle is still a long one. All the time support does not stop to the terrorists from regional states, at the forefront of them Saudi Arabia and Turkey,” he said. Syria’s government refers to all rebels fighting it as terrorists.
A prominent rebel leader meanwhile said talks in Vienna on Friday had borne no fruit.
“If Russian-Iranian stubbornness continues, the situation will head toward escalation,” warned Bashar al-Zoubi, head of the political office of the Yarmouk Army, a rebel group operating under the banner of the moderate Free Syrian Army.
The rebels are hoping that regional states including Saudi Arabia and Turkey will increase military support to them.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir suggested repeatedly in the past week that support to the Syrian opposition would intensify in the face of Tehran and Moscow shoring up Assad.
At the rare regional talks on security in Manama, he said Riyadh was considering intensifying support to moderate Syrian rebels by providing them with “more lethal weapons”, but gave no further details.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in comments reported by Iranian state TV, criticised foreign powers that arm and fund Syrian opposition fighters.
“The solution to the Syrian question is elections, and for this it is necessary to stop military and financial aid to the opposition,” state media outlets quoted Khamenei as saying.
(Reporting by John Davison and Tom Perry in Beirut; Additional reporting by William Maclean and Yara Bayoumy in Dubai; Writing by John Davison; Editing by Tom Heneghan

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