WORLD_ Airstrikes fail to stop IS

Airstrikes fail to stop IS

Alex Mason, Newstalk ZB
October 8, 2014, 8:56 am

Airstrikes are failing to stop IS advancing on the Syrian town of Kobane.

A three-week assault by the Islamic State group on the town, which is within sight of the Turkish border, has left hundreds dead.

CNN's Phil Wood says Kurdish fighters aren't giving up yet - but don't believe they can hold on unless there are more airstrikes.

"They believe that is pretty much the only thing that could potentially delay, perhaps prevent the inevitable, ISIS taking control of the city.

"What they say would be, then, a massacre of the thousands of fighters and a few civilians waiting behind." Allied air power is so far making little impact.

US correspondent Richard Arnold told Newstalk ZB's Susan Wood airstrikes from an international coalition, are intended to weaken the extremist group.

But he says the battle map looks bleak.

"Before US airstrikes began 13 Iraqi cities were under the control of ISIS.

"Fifty nine days on, it is 14 cities under ISIS control and they're now contesting Ramadi."

Richard Arnold says when airstrikes began in Syria two weeks ago, 10 cities were under ISIS control - that number remains the same, and Kobane looks likely to fall.

***

Chân thành cám ơn Quý Anh Chị ghé thăm "conbenho Nguyễn Hoài Trang Blog".
Xin được lắng nghe ý kiến chia sẻ của Quý Anh Chị trực tiếp tại Diễn Đàn Paltalk: 1Latdo Tapdoan Vietgian CSVN Phanquoc Bannuoc . 
Kính chúc Sức Khỏe Quý Anh Chị . 



conbenho
Tiểu Muội quantu
Nguyễn Hoài Trang
08102014
___________
Cộng sản Việt Nam là TỘI ÁC
Bao che, dung dưỡng TỘI ÁC là ĐỒNG LÕA với TỘI ÁC