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SYRIAN Kurdish spokesman Redor Khalil called yesterday for a US-led coalition supposedly assembled to defeat Islamic State (Isis) to help drive back the terrorists’ offensive in north-eastern Syria.
Mr Khalil, who represents the People’s Protection Units (YPGs) organised by the autonomous socialist administration in Rojava, said Isis had brought in extra fighters from other parts of Syria and Iraq and was advancing in Tal Tamr and Ras al-Ayn.
“Everyone is urged to come and defend,” he said.
US air strikes on Isis positions helped Rojava see off the terror group’s assault on Kobane.
But Washington’s two-faced foreign policy on Syria was exposed as the State Department said it was planning to hand another $70 million (£48m) in aid to opposition forces in the country, even though such handouts in the past have been passed straight to Isis, by far the strongest group fighting to overthrow Bashar al-Assad’s government.
