Friday, September 26, 2014

Firefight with ISIS on Syria-Turkey border

ISIS it appears is trying to go after the 130,000 Kurdish refugees that have gone into Turkey. As I'm watching this live on CNN ISIS fighters are pursuing the 130,000 Kurdish refugees into Turkey. The U.S. and it's allies don't have Turkey's permission to go after the ISIS forces into Turkey. The Peshmerga in Turkey are driving the ISIS forces back and protecting their people. At this point Turkey doesn't feel threatened enough by ISIS to go after the ISIS forces and is letting the Peshmerga Kurdish forces deal with them at least at present.

Also, just now the U.K. parliament has okayed Airstrikes in Syria and Iraq?

British Parliament OKs Airstrikes Against ISIS in Iraq

NBCNews.com‎ - 9 mins ago

The British Parliament voted Friday to approve airstrikes against ISIS militants in Iraq.

David Cameron Urges Parliament to Back Airstrikes Against ISIS in Iraq

New York Times‎ - 3 hours ago

UK Parliament debates airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq

CNN.com‎ - 5 hours ago

Continuing coverage of the ISIS terror threat in Iraq and Syria

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British Parliament OKs Airstrikes Against ISIS in Iraq

Britain's Cameron Urges Action to Dismantle and Destroy ISIS

NBC News

The British Parliament voted overwhelmingly Friday to join the American-led coalition carrying out airstrikes against ISIS militants in Iraq.

Meeting in a special session, the lawmakers approved the strikes 524-43. Belgium and Denmark also voted Friday to join the coalition. The vote in London applies only to Iraq — not Syria, where the United States and Arab allies have bombed ISIS this week.

Prime Minister David Cameron made a passionate case for involvement in Iraq, describing ISIS as a terrorist organization unlike anything Britain had seen. “The brutality is staggering,” he said. “Beheadings, crucifixions, the gouging out of eyes, the use of rape as a weapon, the slaughter of children. There isn’t a ‘walk on by’ option.”

Cameron suffered a humiliating defeat last year when lawmakers rejected proposed airstrikes against Syrian government forces. Referring to the Sunni extremists rampaging through Syria and Iraq as “psychopathic terrorists who want to kill us,” his pleas for support were aimed at convincing a Parliament bruised by what is widely seen as a flawed 2003 Iraq intervention.