Syrian Kurds repel ISIS attack on Kobane

From rudaw.net by MUTLU CIVIROGLU July 8, 2014  SYRIA

The advantage for the Kurds is that the YPG’s superior military capabilities, discipline and large popular support may give it the edge over ISIS in Kobane, Hasakah and elsewhere. Photo: AFP

A report at rudaw.net, a Kurdish media outlet, written by Mutlu Civiroglu, claims about 200 fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) had been killed in a recent offensive against a Kurdish-held area of northern Syria, according to Kurdish officials.

ISIS forces last Wednesday attacked villages west of Kobane using tanks and other armoured vehicles captured from the Iraqi army in the fall of Mosul in northern Iraq.

Three cantons of northern Syria were declared autonomous by Syrian Kurds last year as ISIS rebels fought with Syria's Bashar al-Assad regime. The Kurds refer to their region as Rojava, which simply means "the West", as in Western Kurdistan. The area is also called Syrian Kurdistan.

Rojava is defended by the People's Protection Units (YPG), local militas recruited by local leaders. 

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Jeremiah foresaw three nations of the Medes -- now called Kurds -- as drawing up battle lines against the land of the Chaldeans. After decades of battling each other, the Iranian and Iraqi factions of the Kurds finally consolidated their power under the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), and control the northern provinces of Iraq.

What is missing in the scenario is the western Kurds, the Turkish/Syrian Kurds, the "Ararat" Kurds. If they were to join the coalition of Kurds, the three "nations" would then be unified, fulfilling the prophecy.

With the break up of Syria, the stage is set to allow them to join their Kurdish brethren. The KRG has announced support for the Kurds of Rojava.

Will the current fighting in Syrian Kurdistan result in this unification of the nations of the Medes? Are the current events in Iraq/Syria the fulfillment of Jeremiah's 2,600-year-old prophecy?