60,000 Syrian Kurds flee to Turkey within 24 hours amid ISIS advance

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some 60,000 Syrian Kurds have crossed into Turkey in the past 24 hours, fleeing Islamic State (IS) militants who are advancing on dozens of villages close to the border.</span></span><br> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span> <div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turkey opened a stretch of the border on Friday after Kurds fled their homes, fearing an attack on the border town of Ayn al-Arab, a Kurdish commander on the ground said.<br><br>Local Kurds also said they fear a massacre in Kobani, whose strategic location has been blocking the militants from gaining more power in northern Syria.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Kobani is facing the fiercest and most barbaric attack in its history,"</em> Mohammed Saleh Muslim, the head of Syria's powerful Kurdish Democratic Union, told AP.<br><br>Lokman Isa, a 34-year-old farmer who escaped with his family, told Reuters: <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“They [Islamic State] have destroyed every place they have gone to. We saw what they did in Iraq in Sinjar and we fled in fear.”</em> He added that Kurdish forces fighting against the radical group have only light weapons.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <script language="JavaScript1.1" src="http://bdv.bidvertiser.com/BidVertiser.dbm?pid=579098%26bid=1449088" type="text/javascript"></script> <noscript><a href="http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/BidVertiser/bdv_advertiser.dbm">marketing</a></noscript> <script type="text/javascript"> ( function() { if (window.CHITIKA === undefined) { window.CHITIKA = { 'units' : [] }; }; var unit = {"publisher":"milevski21","width":300,"height":250,"sid":"Chitika Default"}; var placement_id = window.CHITIKA.units.length; window.CHITIKA.units.push(unit); document.write('<div id="chitikaAdBlock-' + placement_id + '"></div>'); var s = document.createElement('script'); s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.src = '//cdn.chitika.net/getads.js'; try { document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s); } catch(e) { document.write(s.outerHTML); } }()); </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ads.qadservice.com/t?id=a9d19797-a2f4-4278-bad3-1729dd785474&size=300x250"></script> <div class="article_img" style="float: none; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="AFP Photo" src="http://rt.com/files/news/2e/3c/40/00/kurdish-turkey-border-cross.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; float: none; height: auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></div></div>

60,000 Syrian Kurds flee to Turkey within 24 hours amid ISIS advance

Some 60,000 Syrian Kurds have crossed into Turkey in the past 24 hours, fleeing Islamic State (IS) militants who are advancing on dozens of...

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ISIS EXPOSED

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The leader of the ISIS was released from U.S. custody in Iraq by President Barack Obama during his Iraqi troop draw down last year. The CIA has organized this ISIS terror group. Then they open America’s southern boarders for man power, weapons and supplies can be moved into America with no resistence.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://worldtruth.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/264434b2e2b1d9c2aa84a0cb273e4df55f712a3c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="264434b2e2b1d9c2aa84a0cb273e4df55f712a3c" border="0" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-48446" height="369" src="http://worldtruth.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/264434b2e2b1d9c2aa84a0cb273e4df55f712a3c.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inherit; height: auto; line-height: 0 !important; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="610"></a></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then Obama releases the GITMO 5 to join their Islamic brothers and bring Jihad to America.</span></div> <script language="JavaScript1.1" src="http://bdv.bidvertiser.com/BidVertiser.dbm?pid=579098%26bid=1449088" type="text/javascript"></script> <noscript><a href="http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/BidVertiser/bdv_advertiser.dbm">marketing</a></noscript> <script type="text/javascript"> ( function() { if (window.CHITIKA === undefined) { window.CHITIKA = { 'units' : [] }; }; var unit = {"publisher":"milevski21","width":300,"height":250,"sid":"Chitika Default"}; var placement_id = window.CHITIKA.units.length; window.CHITIKA.units.push(unit); document.write('<div id="chitikaAdBlock-' + placement_id + '"></div>'); var s = document.createElement('script'); s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.src = '//cdn.chitika.net/getads.js'; try { document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s); } catch(e) { document.write(s.outerHTML); } }()); </script> <div style="border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you watch this video understand that government propaganda on the masses is legal under 2012 NDAA. America is facing danger beyond comprehension. Mainstream media keeps feeding people an illusion of safety while our own CIA organizes and assists these rebel Jihadists.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://worldtruth.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/264434b2e2b1d9c2aa84a0cb273e4df55f712a3c.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></a></div> </div></div>

ISIS EXPOSED

The leader of the ISIS was released from U.S. custody in Iraq by President Barack Obama during his Iraqi troop draw down last year. The CI...

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