So-Called "Conservative" UK government arrests father of anti-ISIS fighter

Dan Newey with a YPG comrade in 2017. His Kurdish-led military unit was backed by Britain and trained by the SAS

More "Conservative" Bullshit

Tired of the endless lies from the Right I stopped calling myself a Conservative years ago. I am a Constitutional Federalist.

• Paul Newey is accused of funding terrorism by sending his son Dan £150
• Dan's Kurdish-led military unit was backed by Britain and trained by the SAS
• Eleven anti-terrorism officers burst into Paul's home after an early morning raid 

(Daily Mail) - The father of a British man who fought against Islamic State in Syria has been arrested by armed police for sending his son £150.

Paul Newey, 49, is accused of funding terrorism, even though his 27-year-old son Dan's Kurdish-led military unit was backed by Britain and trained by the SAS. After the defeat of ISIS, the Kurdish units have now found themselves in conflict with Turkish forces.

'ISIS fighters get to come home and settle back down no problem,' Mr Newey said last night. 'Yet my son and me are treated like terrorists. The UK has got its priorities all wrong.'

In an exclusive interview, Mr Newey, a mechanical engineer who is recovering from stomach cancer, revealed how:

• Eleven anti-terrorism officers burst into his home after an early morning raid as he slept;
• He spent 36 hours in a top-security police station in a cell that is normally used for terrorism suspects;
• He believes his son 'risked his life for a noble cause' fighting with British troops but now fears being locked up if he comes home.

Phony "Conservatism"
So-called British and American "Conservatives" have lots in common: a drooling love of big government, foreign wars and building, funding, growing and protecting the 1984 Police Surveillance State.

Dan Newey, who had no previous military experience, gave up his job as an insurance salesman in 2017 to join the YPG, a Kurdish-led army based in Syria which, at the time, was leading the international military coalition against the threat of ISIS.

A year later, he returned to Britain and was put on a Home Office watchlist. But two months ago he went back to fight with the YPG for a second time.

Britain's backing for the organisation – and the efforts of its UK volunteers – helped to bring down ISIS's murderous caliphate. 

However, a recent chain of international political events means that Dan and other British YPG volunteers are now fighting not against ISIS but against Turkey which remains an ally of the UK and a member of the Nato defence alliance.

Speaking of his arrest at his flat in Solihull, West Midlands, earlier this month, Mr Newey, who requires constant medication, said: 'I was asleep when I heard this frantic banging on the front door and non-stop buzzing on the intercom.

'Then they came in mob-handed, seven armed officers and a four-man search team.

'Naturally I wondered what the hell was going on. They said they were nicking me for supporting terrorism, which was news to me.

'I knew Dan was in the YPG, which isn't a terrorist group.'

Although the YPG is not a prescribed organisation in Britain, Another Kurdish group, the PKK, is designated as a terrorist group in the UK. Mr Newey claimed his son had nothing to do with it.

'I told the police that my son fought on the same side as British troops against ISIS. And I told them I'd sent him money, because I've got nothing to hide.

'It isn't Dan's fault or mine that Turkey is now illegally occupying areas of northern Syria where Kurdish communities have lived for generations,' he added.

'Dan's just there protecting fellow YPG volunteers and innocent civilians from ethnic cleansing.'

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The British Police State
The so-called "Conservative" government of Britain spent over $16,000 a day to imprison Internet newspaper publisher Julian Assange inside the embassy of Ecuador on the orders of the U.S. government.
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His crime? Daring to tell the public the truth.

Britain has gone full 1984

Media stories vanish down Orwell's "Memoryhole"

• Nationalist Tommy Robinson was arrested by the "Conservative" UK government and all reports of the arrest were ordered removed from the Internet.
• The "Conservative" Party will do anything in their power to protect unlimited Muslim immigration and silence Nationalists standing up for Britain.

The Syrian Kurdish YPG is Marxist

Leftist Syrian Kurd YPG "People's Protection Units"

Does This Sound Familiar?

"People's Protection Units"

By Gary;

Yep - "People's" Protection Units.

I find it interesting that Leftist Loon Democrats and Righwing Neocon Warmongers are united in supporting a Marxist Kurdish Army in Syria.

The Syrian Kurds are not the same as their Iraqi brothers. The Syrians hold strong Leftist ideology  In fact the Turkish Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) has been sending volunteers to fight with the YPG since 2012.

You need a large notebook to keep all the tribes and factions straight - - - tribes and factions that are often fluid and support or oppose each other depending what day of the week it is.

BOTTOM LINE  -  Both warmonger parties in Congress want eternal war almost everywhere. President Trump stands nearly alone wanting the U.S. to mind its own business around the world.

Not every conflict has to have U.S. Troops on the ground.

I have been against Comrade Obama's unconstitutional Syrian War from day one.

I am happy to see Trump try to pull us back.

Kurdish forces bring in Syrian troops to fight Turkey

Russia backs Syria Demanding That Turkey Leave

Battle rages for key Syrian border town

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"We Americans have no commission from

God to police the world."

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President Benjamin Harrison

US to build 30,000-strong army inside Syria

Syrian Democratic Forces female fighters hold their weapons during a graduation ceremony in the city of Hasaka, northeastern Syria on 9 August 2017 Rodi Said/Reuters

Another Military-Industrial Complex Project

• Mixed feelings. We had no business in Syria in the first place, but abandoning our Kurdish allies is not right either. 
• But what business is it of ours to arm and fund an army inside another nation? This sounds like another of those projects of the Military-Industrial Complex to keep our fingers in everyone's business.

(Agence France-Presse)  -  The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said on Sunday it was working to create a 30,000-strong border security force in northern Syria, drawing sharp condemnation from Turkey.

With the offensive against IS winding down, the coalition and its allies in the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance were beginning to shift their focus to border security, coalition spokesman Colonel Ryan Dillon told AFP.

"There is a goal of a final force of approximately 30,000," about half of whom would be retrained SDF fighters, he said.

"There are approximately 230 individuals that are training right now in the border security force. That's an inaugural class," Dillon said.

Backed by the US-led coalition's air strikes, special forces advisers, and weapons, the SDF has ousted IS from swathes of northeastern Syria.

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A fighter from Deir al-Zor military council which fights under the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) holds the council's flag in the village of Abu Fas, Hasaka province, Syria September 9, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said

The Kurds are betrays by America

Backstabbing Our "Allies"

It's as old as the American Republic

• I saw this coming and Blogged about it years ago. Yes blame is there for Trump. But no matter who won the election the Kurds were destined to be royally butt-fucked by the U.S.  It is an old story.

(Bloomberg)  -  President Donald Trump told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the U.S. would stop arming Kurdish fighters in Syria, Turkey’s foreign minister said Friday, ending a policy that had inflamed tensions between the two nations.

Trump and Erdogan spoke by telephone following a summit on Syria earlier this week in Sochi, Russia, between Erdogan, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. 

The gathering focused on discussions for a Syria peace settlement. Putin’s plan, which largely excludes the U.S., got a boost on Friday when Syria’s opposition agreed to form a single bloc to negotiate with President Bashar al-Assad.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in a press conference that Trump said the U.S. would no longer supply weapons to the Kurdish group, known as the YPG. Cavusoglu said that Trump called the arming of the YPG ridiculous. 

A White House description of the call was less specific, saying only that Trump informed Erdogan of “pending adjustments to the military support provided to our partners on the ground in Syria.”

The White House described the change as “consistent with our previous policy,” and said it reflects the new phase of the battle after the capital of the Islamic State’s self-described caliphate fell to U.S.-backed forces. “The battle of Raqqa is complete and we are progressing into a stabilization phase to ensure that ISIS cannot return,” it said in an e-mailed summary of the phone call.

Erdogan and Trump also discussed the purchase of military equipment from the U.S. by Turkey, according to the White House.

The Kurds received U.S. backing as the most effective local proxies against Islamic State in Syria.

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Backstabbing at the Shores of Tripoli
Painting above is of Marine Corps Lt. Presley O'Bannon in battle at Derna, in modern-day Libya, 1805.
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To the shores of Tripoli goes the song.  The war, defeating the pirates, the song and the role of the Marines is all part of the great American myth.  And myth it is. This was the first (but not the last time) that the U.S. betrayed an ally.
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The U.S. recruited Hamet Karamanli and his supporters promising to restore him as leader of Tripoli.  But Thomas Jefferson abandoned our allies in his attempt to end the war. General William Eaton believed the honor of the United States had been compromised.

Apache Scouts Betrayed
The U.S. Army Apache Scouts who helped defeat Geronimo were betrayed. Following the surrender negotiations, the Army disarmed the Apache scouts and imprisoned them with Geronimo’s people as prisoners of war.

Battle of Manila (1899)
Filipino soldiers dead in a trench killed by their American "allies".  The people of the Philippines were under the strange impression they were the allies of the Americans who were there to "liberate" them.  They were wrong.
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Polish War Cemetery At Monte Cassino
An entire Polish Army Corps fought side-by-side with the allies in Italy.  They were betrayed by their "friends". Over 200,000 troops of the Polish Armed Forces in the West were fighting at the side of the Allies in Italy, the Middle East and France.

.FDR and Churchill had no problem stabbing Poland in the back and giving away 50% of their territory to the Soviet Union.

The CIA Bay of Pigs Disaster
The U.S. sent in the Cuban freedom fighters and then left there to die. But that is what friends are for . . . . 

The Fall of Saigon
The U.S. leaves our allies in South Vietnam to die.

Now the Kurds are Betrayed
Armed by the U.S. the Kurds are the current group, but they will not be the last, to be betrayed by an ungrateful American Government.

Abandoned by Trump, Kurds Turn to Putin

It is dangerous to be a US ally

• With one hand Comrade Obama armed ISIS and other Islamist groups and with the other hand starved the pro-American Kurds of weapons.
• Trump gave the Kurds a few more weapons. But now with ISIS collapsing we see Trump leaving the Kurds to twist slowly in the wind. . . . and in comes Russia to fill the void.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq announced it had signed a deal with the Russian state-owned oil corporation Rosneft that would allow the company to begin developing oil blocks worth a potential $400 million to the Kurds.

The announcement follows a turbulent week for the KRG, as the Iran-backed government in Baghdad launched an invasion into its territory and wrested Kirkuk, an oil-rich province, out of the Kurds’ hands. Iraqi officials claim the invasion was necessary following the KRG’s decision to hold a non-binding referendum asking its citizens whether they would support a path to independence from Iraq.

While many experts cite the Kurdish Peshmerga as the most effective ally of the United States against the Islamic State on the ground in Iraq, the Trump administration has refused to support the Kurds against the Iran-backed Shiite militias that have stormed Kirkuk, with President Donald Trump himself stating, “We’re not taking sides,” reports Breitbart.

Bloomberg reports that the Rosneft deal will allow the Russian oil company to develop five oil blocks in Kurdistan. The contract would give “Rosneft 80 percent of the projects, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Rosneft may pay a fee of as much as $400 million, half of which could be repaid in oil pumped from the deposits.”

“The new agreements will allow us to talk about full-fledged entry of the company in one of the most promising regions,” Bloomberg quotes a statement from Rosneft as stating. The oil company statement estimated that the blocks in question would be complete by 2021, suggesting that the company expects to remain a long-term presence in the region despite the current stability, and expects the KRG to remain in control of the locations of those blocks throughout the process and not lose them to the Iraqi government.

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Peshmerga Fighters Reclaim Ground from ISIS

2014 report. The Kurds stood up to ISIS while the Iraq army ran for the hills.

Being a US ally Counts for Shit
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters guarding Mosul Dam in Iraq.

The ISIS Collapse
Comrade Obama, Saudi Arabia and Turkey got the ball rolling by sending mountains of arms to Islamists in Syria.  Russia and Iran only came in later to counter US armed Islamists.
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Now with ISIS and US armed Islamist groups in collapse Russia and Iran are firmly in control.
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Starve the Kurds says Islamist Turkey

Question of the Day

• Under Comrade Obama the U.S. supported NATO member Turkey helping ISIS and Turkey's bombing the Kurds. Will Trump allow our Kurdish allies against ISIS to be starved by Turkey, Iraq and Iran?

(RT News)  -  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that Iraqi Kurds will “not be able to find food” if Ankara decides to halt the flow of trucks and oil into the region, adding that all military and economic sanctions are on the table.

“[They] will be left in the lurch when we start imposing our sanctions,” Erdogan said in a speech broadcast live on television on Tuesday, as quoted by Reuters.

It will be over when we close the oil taps, all [their] revenues will vanish, and they will not be able to find food when our trucks stop going to northern Iraq.”

The Turkish president then warned that Israel’s support would be insufficient to sustain the Iraqi Kurds’ drive for independence and would not save them from international isolation. Erdogan added that Tel Aviv does not exercise sufficient leverage over the world community. 

“Who will recognize your independence? Israel. The world is not about Israel. You should know that the waving of Israeli flags there will not save you,” he said, as quoted by Hurriyet. 

"If the only support for the KRG’s referendum is given by Israel and if the [outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party] PKK starts celebrating [the results] even before the polls close then there can be neither innocence nor legitimacy,” Erdogan said.

The Israel reference comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed support for an independent Kurdistan earlier this month, while taking aim at Ankara's support of Hamas.

“Israel opposes the PKK and considers it a terrorist organization, in contrast to Turkey, which supports the terrorist group Hamas,” Netanyahu said during a state visit to Argentina. “While Israel is opposed to any kind of terrorism, it supports the legitimate means of the Kurdish people to obtain their own state.”

The Turkish leader said Iraqi Kurds are incapable of creating their own state. “They don’t have an idea on how to be a state. They think that they are a state just by saying it. This can’t and won’t happen,”he said.

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An ISIS Traffic Jam
Huge convoys of ISIS oil and resupply trucks on a highway to
Turkey as photographed by Russian jets.

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NATO member Turkey was openly supporting ISIS while the

convoy of ISIS trucks "magically" was not bombed by Obama.

Anti-ISIS YPG Kurdish militia
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Kurds stick with independence vote, 'never going back to Baghdad'

Freedom - What a Concept

(Reuters) - Iraq's Kurds will go ahead with a referendum on independence on Monday because their partnership with Baghdad has failed, Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani said on Sunday, shrugging off international opposition to the vote.

In response, the Iraqi government asked the autonomous Kurdish region to hand over control of its international border posts, its international airports and called on foreign countries to stop importing Kurdish crude oil.

It asked "the neighboring countries and the countries of the world to deal exclusively with the federal government of Iraq in regards to entry posts and oil," according to a statement from Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's office.

The United States and other Western powers have urged Kurdish authorities in the oil producing region to cancel the vote, arguing that it distracts from the fight against Islamic State.

Turkey and Iran have also kept up the pressure to stop the vote, with presidents Tayyip Erdogan and Hassan Rouhani speaking by phone and expressing concern that it will "bring chaos in the region", according to Erdogan's office.

Barzani, at a news conference at his headquarters near Erbil, dismissed the worries of Iraq's neighbors, committing to respect laws on international boundaries and not seek to redraw the region's borders.

"We will never go back to the failed partnership" with Baghdad, he said, adding Iraq had become a "theocratic, sectarian state" and not the democratic one that was supposed to be built after the 2003 overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

The vote, expected to result in a comfortable "yes" to independence, is not binding and is meant to give the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) a mandate to negotiate secession with Baghdad and the neighboring countries.

Barzani said Iraq's Kurds would seek talks with the Shi'ite-led central government to implement the expected "yes" outcome, even if they take two years or more, to settle land and oil sharing disputes ahead of independence.

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"Syria" and "Iraq" Never Existed
To Start With
Most of the Middle East "nations" we are trying to "save" were artificially created out of thin air by European Imperialist powers before and after World War One.  Countries like Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Kuwait had never existed before the West marched in to divide, conquer and set up their colonies.
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See our article:
The Artificially Created Nations of the Middle East May Vanish at Last

The Kurds Are About to Blow up Iraq

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters guarding Mosul Dam in Iraq

So What if Iraq "Vanishes"?

• Nations have come and gone in the middle east for thousands of years. But the U.S. government tries to whip the American Sheeple into a frenzy and send in our troops to "protect" the borders of nations that have never existed in history.

(Middle East Forum)  -  Next month, on September 25, the Kurdistan Regional Government in Erbil will hold a binding referendum on whether or not to secede from Iraq. It will almost certainly pass. More than a decade ago, the Kurds held a non-binding referendum that passed with 99.8 percent of the vote.

No one knows what's going to happen. Iraq is the kind of place where just about anything can happen and eventually does.

Kurdish secession could go as smoothly as a Scottish secession from the United Kingdom (were that to actually happen) or a Quebecois secession from Canada, were that to actually happen. It could unfold like Kosovo's secession from Serbia, where some countries recognize it and others don't while the Serbs are left to stew in their own juices more or less peaceably.

This is a serious business, though, because Iraq is not Britain, and it is not Canada. And there's a potential flashpoint that travelers to the region would be well advised to stay away from for a while.

"Syria" and "Iraq" Never Existed
To Start With
Most of the Middle East "nations" we are trying to "save" were artificially created out of thin air by European Imperialist powers before and after World War One.  Countries like Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Kuwait had never existed before the West marched in to divide, conquer and set up their colonies.
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See our article:
The Artificially Created Nations of the Middle East May Vanish at Last

Shortly after ISIS invaded Iraq from Syria in 2014, the Kurdistan Regional Government effectively annexed the oil-rich governorate of Kirkuk. Ethnic Kurds made up a plurality of the population, with sizeable Arab and Turkmen minorities, before Saddam Hussein's Arabization program in the 1990s temporarily created an artificial Arab majority.

Since then, Kurds have been returning to the city en masse while many Arabs, most of whom had no history in the region before Saddam put them there, have left. No one really knows what the demographics look like now.

It's a tinderbox regardless of the actual headcount. Some of the Arabs who still live there could mount a rebellion at some point, either immediately or down the road. If they do, they might engage in the regional sport of finagling financial and even military backing from neighboring countries.

Then again, Arabs have been trickling north into the Kurdistan region for years because it's peaceful and quiet and civilized. It's the one part of Iraq that, despite the local government's corruption and inability to live up to the democratic norms it claims to espouse, works remarkably well.

I've been to Iraqi Kurdistan a number of times. It's safer than Kansas. My only real complaint is that it gets a bit boring after a while. If you're coming from Baghdad or Mosul, it's practically Switzerland.

Kirkuk Governorate, though, is—or at least recently was—another story. The three "core" Kurdish governorates—Dohuk, Erbil, and Suleimaniyah—have been free of armed conflict since the toppling of Saddam Hussein, but Kirkuk was down in the war zone. I went there ten years ago from Suleimaniyah and was only willing to do so under the armed protection of Kurdish police officers. 

Had I wandered around solo as I did farther north, I would have risked being shot, kidnapped or car-bombed. I still could have been shot or car-bombed alongside the police, but at least kidnapping was (mostly) off the table. The very fact that Kirkuk was a war zone at a time when the Kurdish governorates to the north were not suggests that the Kurds may be swallowing more than they can digest.

Kirkuk has oil, though, while the governorates to the north mostly don't, so of course the Kurds want it. Baghdad, of course, wants to keep it for the same reason. Will Iraq's central government go to war over it? Probably not. Saddam Hussein lost his own war against the Kurds in the north, and he had far more formidable forces at his disposal than Baghdad does now. Still, it's more likely than a war between London and Edinburgh, or between Ottawa and Montreal.

The biggest threat to an independent Iraqi Kurdistan comes not from Baghdad but from Turkey. The Turks have been fighting a low-grade counter-insurgency against the armed Kurdish separatists of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) since the 1970s that has killed tens of thousands of people, and they're deathly afraid that a free and independent Kurdish state anywhere in the world will both embolden and assist their internal enemies.

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Kurds push back ISIS

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Everyone Fears a Free Kurdistan
Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran all oppose a free Kurdistan that would unite the Kurdish peoples into one nation.

Trump arming Kurdish militia fighting ISIS

Anti-ISIS YPG female soldiers

Better Late Than Never

Left to die by Comrade Obama, 

Trump sends the Kurds weapons

(RT News)  -  The US is now equipping Kurdish fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces with heavy machine guns, small arms and ammunition to battle Islamic State fighters near their stronghold of Raqqa, Syria.

Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon told RT that this move represents the "early steps to prepare for the eventual liberation of Raqqa," which the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has declared the capital of its self-proclaimed caliphate.

"Overall, the equipment the US-led coalition will provide to the SDF includes small arms, ammunition, heavy machine guns and weapons capable of defeating specific threats our partner forces are expected to encounter as they take the fight to a desperate enemy, such as heavily-armored vehicle-borne IEDs," Pahon said in an emailed statement.

US-ally Turkey has long opposed the arming Kurdish forces, which it considers to be outgrowths of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a designated terrorist group in both Turkey and the US.

Amid reports of US delivering arms to the Kurdish-controlled northern Syrian city of Hasakah in recent weeks, Turkish President Recep Erdogan called the US decision “a mistake” and urged US authorities to “reverse it immediately.”

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Anti-ISIS YPG Kurdish militia
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ISIS Beheads 19 Kurds in Mass Execution Video

Praise Be To Allah

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (AMN) – ISIS published a lengthy video on Sunday showing a series of executions on alleged Kurdish and government spies in the Iraqi province of Kirkuk.

Forced to write pro-ISIS slogans with their own blood, the Kurdish prisoners of war were either beheaded or shot in the head, in some cases with high-caliber rifles. In characteristic ISIS fashion, the executions were carried out by Kurdish members of the Islamic State.

The footage is highly graphic and should not be watched by children or the faint-hearted.

ISIS still controls a pocket in the Hawija region of western Kirkuk although this region was cutoff from the Islamic State mainland last year.

Al-Masdar News strongly condemns terrorism but insists on allowing readers unfiltered news, contrary to other media outlets, and therefore decided to publish the video above.

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Kurdish-led forces advance on ISIS capital

Kurdish women soldiers fighting ISIS

Obama Starved the Kurds of Weapons

Trump Armed the Kurds

(ABC)  -  A Kurdish-led Syrian force backed by the U.S. expects to advance on the Islamic State group's de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria this summer, a commander said Friday, following a decision by the Trump administration to supply the force with heavier weapons.

The Syrian Democratic Forces have been buoyed by this week's capture of the key town of Tabqa and its nearby dam. The advance left no significant IS-held urban settlements between SDF lines and Raqqa, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) to the east.

An SDF commander, identified only as Abdelqader, declined to specify dates at a news conference, citing tactical reasons. He said the battle for Raqqa would begin once the group receives the weapons from the U.S. military, adding that he expects the fighters to storm the city in the coming weeks.

The announcement to equip the SDF with weapons was a snub to Turkey, which doesn't want the Syrian Kurdish-led force to take Raqqa and has offered its own troops instead. Ankara is also enraged by U.S. plans to arm the Syrian Kurds, who they consider terrorists.

But the SDF made clear it is capable enough with the forces and support it already has.

"We do not want any other forces to participate with us," said Abdelqader.

"They can solve their problems in their own country," he said, in reference to Turkey.

The SDF also announced it would hand over the town to civilian administrators.

Earlier this week, the Trump administration said it would arm the Kurdish elements of the SDF. Ankara said the plan was "unacceptable" and a threat to its national security.

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Pushing Back the Islamic State: 

The Battle for Rojava

You never see this type of reporting on what passes for "news" 

on American TV. An older but excellent report.

The Turks want the anti-ISIS Kurds to die.
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Everyone Fears a Free Kurdistan
Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran all oppose a free Kurdistan that
would unite the Kurdish peoples into one nation.