Targeted airstrikes allow Kurds to gain ground in Kobani [Kurds giving the coordinates to US]

U.S.-led air strikes killed at least 32 ISIS fighters in direct hits in Kobani this week because of closer coordination with Kurdish forces on the ground, activists said, after bombing of the Syrian town intensified.

Kurdish officials said the main Kurdish armed group, the YPG, was giving the coordinates of ISIS fighters in Kobani to the U.S.-led alliance that is bombing the group in both Iraq and Syria.

"The senior people in YPG tell the coalition the location of ISIL (ISIS) targets and they hit accordingly," Polat Can, a YPG spokesman, told Reuters, using an acronym for ISIS

"Some of them (ISIS) have withdrawn, but they regroup and return. But because the air strikes are working in coordination, they hit their targets well," he said.

The Kurdish YPG have been struggling to defend Kobani, also known as Ain al-Arab, from better armed ISIS fighters who have used tanks, artillery and suicide truck bombs in a month-long offensive against the town at the Turkish border.

ISIS has taken control of much of eastern and southern Kobani but has not made much progress this week. The Kurdish forces say they have taken back areas on the west of the town.

"one of the allied air strikes in the last day killed
a group of ISIS fighters just 50 metres (yards) from a
Kurdish position."

Rings true it seems.

1 posted on 10/15/2014 9:20:40 AM PDT by GonzoII

The Kurds should give the coordinates to all those Muslim controlled Turkish tanks. Light those suckers up.

2 posted on 10/15/2014 9:25:48 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)

The Kurds are our best asset there. God bless them, and free Kurdistan.

3 posted on 10/15/2014 9:27:43 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)

Wait until the White House hears about how effective working tactically with the Kurds is. He’ll put a stop to it immediately.

4 posted on 10/15/2014 9:28:08 AM PDT by skeeter

Obama will read about this in tomorrows news paper, get all mad, and order the air attacks to stop coordinating with the the Kurds.

5 posted on 10/15/2014 9:28:33 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)

I hope they have women sending in the coordinates so the Musloids spend eternity as 72 virgins in Mulsloid Land.

6 posted on 10/15/2014 9:28:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)

Any bets when they say “Kurds giving the coordinates to US” it actually means “US Special Forces and forward air controllers giving the coordinates and laser targeting to US pilots”?

7 posted on 10/15/2014 9:29:23 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)

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