nusantaraIntlNews - Di tengah-tengah kecederaan berat pada kedua-dua belah pihak, Negara Islam [INI] militan terpaksa tarik balik dari serangan mereka di bandar Syria Kobani, menurut kumpulan pemantau antarabangsa.
Militan IS, selepas secara ringkas mendapat kawalan Kebebasan Square pusat Kobani berikutan serangan menyelinap kepada kuasa Kurdish, terpaksa berundur selepas mengalami kerugian, menurut Balai Cerap Syria bagi Hak Asasi Manusia (SOHR), sebuah kumpulan pembangkang Syria yang berpangkalan di UK.
"Pertempuran ganas berlaku di pinggir persegi yang membawa kepada kematian beberapa IS militan, manakala yang lain berundur ke kawasan2 perumahan timur di bandar Kobani," Balai Cerap Syria bagi Hak Asasi Manusia dilaporkan.
Lebih daripada 550 orang tlh terbunuh sejak serangan tentera Kobani oleh militan Negara Islam (juga dikenali sebagai ISIS, atau Isil) bermula pada 16 September, Balai Cerap yang dilaporkan.
Mangsa-mangsa termasuk kira2 20 orang awam, 226 pejuang Unit Perlindungan Rakyat Kurdish (YPG), & sehingga 10 daripada kumpulan2 yang memberi sokongan kepada YPG, termasuk mangsa yang lain.
Organisasi pemantauan memberi amaran bahawa, memandangkan yg kesukaran dalam mewujudkan angka yang pasti di tengah-tengah keganasan, apatah lagi kerahsiaan sengit daripada kedua-dua belah pihak, jumlah sebenar mereka yang terbunuh boleh menjadi 2 kali angka yang disenaraikan.
Telah wujud kebimbangan bahawa jalan keluar yang terakhir bagi Kurdis dikepung ke bersempadan Turki telah disekat berikutan kemenangan singkat IS.
Turki telah enggan, memandangkan penduduk sendiri bergolak Kurdish yg sebelum ini meminta kerajaan sendiri, untuk membolehkan Kurdis Turki untuk menyertai rakan-rakan mereka Kurdis yang berperang di Kobani terhadap IS.
"ADALAH semakin bekalan dan lelaki, manakala Turki menghalang Kobani daripada mendapat peluru," kata Ketua SOHR Rami Abdelrahman kepada Reuters.
"Walaupun dengan rintangan, jika perkara-perkara yang kekal seperti ini, kuasa-kuasa Kurdish akan menjadi seperti sebuah kereta tanpa bahan minyak," tegas beliau.
SYRIAN Kurds REPULSE Islamic State militants
in Kobani - WATCHDOG . . .
Amid heavy casualties on both sides, Islamic State [IS] militants have been forced to pull back from their assault on the Syrian town of Kobani, according to an international watchdog group.
IS militants, after briefly gaining control of Kobani's central Freedom Square following a sneak attack on Kurdish forces, were forced to retreat after sustaining losses, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based Syrian opposition group.
“Violent clashes took place at the outskirts of the square leading to the death of some IS militants, while others retreated to the eastern neighborhoods in the city of Kobani,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
More than 550 people have been killed since the military assault of Kobani by the militants of Islamic State (also known as ISIS, or ISIL) began on September 16, the Observatory reported.
The victims include some 20 civilians, 226 fighters of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), and up to 10 from groups that are lending support to the YPG, including other casualties.
The monitoring organization warned that, given the difficulties in establishing definite figures amid the violence, not to mention intense secrecy from both sides, the actual number of those killed could be twice the figure listed.
There had been fears that the last escape route for the besieged Kurds into bordering Turkey was blocked following the short-lived IS gains.
Turkey has been reluctant, given its own restive Kurdish population that has in the past sought self-rule, to allow Turkish Kurds to join their fellow Kurds fighting in Kobani against IS.
“IS is getting supplies and men, while Turkey is preventing Kobani from getting ammunition,” SOHR head Rami Abdelrahman told Reuters.
“Even with the resistance, if things stay like this, the Kurdish forces will be like a car without fuel,” he warned.
Kurdis Turki tonton seluruh bandar Syria Kobani kerana mereka berdiri di atas bukit ber-hampiran Mursitpinar sempadan lintasan di bandar Turki tenggara Suruc di wilayah Sanliurfa Okt 11, 2014 (Turkish Kurds watch over the Syrian town of Kobani as they stand on top of a hill near Mursitpinar border crossing in the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province October 11, 2014 (Reuters/Umit Bektas)
Kobani masih diserang oleh tentera IS dari timur & selatan, manakala pertem-puran telah turun ke jalan pertempuran berjalan, menurut ketua majlis pertahanan Kobani ini, Esmat Al-Sheikh.
"Serangan udara [Amerika] mendapat manfaat, tetapi Negara Islam membawa kereta kebal dan meriam dari sebelah timur. Kami tidak melihat mereka dengan kereta kebal, tetapi semalam kita lihat T-57 kereta kebal, "katanya.
Walaupun beberapa serangan udara 50 ke atas kedudukan IS oleh Amerika Sya-rikat terhadap ADALAH kedudukan sekitar Kobani, masih ada kemungkinan, menurut pegawai2 Amerika Syarikat, daripada ADALAH mendapat kawalan penuh bandar Syria di zaman akan datang, yang akan menyediakan militan Islam dengan besar kemenangan perhubungan awam dalam usaha berterusan mereka untuk menarik rekrut baru.
Berikutan penyebaran tentera IS seluruh utara Iraq dan Syria, Amerika Syarikat pada 22 September dibuka serangan udara terhadap sasaran IS di dalam Syria untuk kali pertama.
Walau bagaimanapun, seperti ular yang tumbuh 3 kepala setiap kali seseorang itu terputus, baru, kumpulan misteri yang dikenali sebagai Kumpulan Khorasan, tiba2 muncul di tempat kejadian di Syria, seolah-olah mengganggu tentera Amerika Syarikat dari keutamaan dinyatakan terhadap militan IS (Menurut laporan AP, Pentagon melancarkan 46 peluru berpandu di lapan lokasi di mana kumpulan itu dipercayai beroperasi).
"Serangan sudah tentu berkesan dalam menetapkan belakang Kumpulan Khorasan, tetapi tiada siapa yang difikirkan mereka penyelesaian kekal atau satu tamparan maut kepada ancaman yang datang dari sel ini," kata Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Ahli Jawatankuasa Perisikan House, AP melaporkan.
Sementara itu, ADALAH masih memegang lebih daripada satu 1/3 daripada bandar Syria berhampiran sempadan Turki.
Kobani remains under attack by IS forces from the east and south, while fighting has descended into running street battles, according to the head of Kobani's defense council, Esmat Al-Sheikh.
“The [American] air strikes are benefiting us, but Islamic State is bringing tanks and artillery from the east. We didn't see them with tanks, but yesterday we saw T-57 tanks,” he said.
Despite some 50 aerial strikes on IS positions by the United States against IS positions around Kobani, there remains the possibility, according to US officials, of IS gaining full control of the Syrian city in coming days, which would provide the Islamic militants with a huge public relations victory in their ongoing efforts to attract fresh recruits.
Following the spread of IS forces throughout northern Iraq and Syria, the United States on September 22 opened airstrikes against IS targets inside Syria for the first time.
However, like a serpent that grows three heads every time one is cut off, a new, mysterious group, called the Khorasan Group, suddenly appeared on the scene in Syria, seemingly distracting the US military from its stated priority against IS militants (According to an AP report, the Pentagon launched 46 cruise missiles at eight locations where the group is believed to be operational).
"The strikes were certainly effective in setting back the Khorasan Group, but no one thinks they were a permanent solution or a death blow to the threats that come from this cell," said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the House Intelligence Committee, AP reported.
Meanwhile, IS still holds over one-third of the Syrian town near the Turkish border.
