Kurdish fighters from Iraq, Syria jointly thwart ISIS border attack
The Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga forces and Syrian Kurdish fighters jointly repelled an Islamic State (ISIS) attack on the strategic Tel Kocher border crossing late Sunday, a military official said. An officer from the Peshmerga’s Safeen unit told Rudaw they intervened to thwart the attack on the Syria-Iraq border after receiving a call for help by […]The Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga forces and Syrian Kurdish fighters jointly repelled an Islamic State (ISIS) attack on the strategic Tel Kocher border crossing late Sunday, a military official said. An officer from the Peshmerga’s Safeen unit told Rudaw they intervened to thwart the attack on the Syria-Iraq border after receiving a call for help by the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the main military force in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava).
“A group of ISIS militants attacked the YPG at 9:30 pm last night at the Tel Kocher border crossing and the YPG asked for our assistance,” the Peshmerga officer said. “After getting permission from our senior leaders we went to assist them with heavy weapons and defeated the ISIS fighters." He added that the fighting ended with “heavy casualties” on the ISIS, but none on YPG or Peshmerga fighters. The two forces control each side of the border. The joint fighting took place as some 150 Peshmerga forces await permission from Turkey to cross into Kobane in Syrian Kurdistan to help the YPG thwart a takeover of the besieged city by ISIS.
