For the first time for decades, all sides to the conflict agree that terrorism has grown out of all proportions and poses a major threat to all. The current aerial bombardment by the US and its allies has won the explicit or implicit support of almost all stakeholders.
UN warns of possible massacre if town falls after Isis takes control of government buildingsIslamic State (Isis) fighters are closing in on the centre of besieged Kobani, where the Kurdish militia have sworn that they will fight to the death, and hundreds of desperate civilians are trapped in streets rank with the smell of rotting bodies.
They have not forgotten their treatment at the hands of competing foreign and regional powersContemporary Kurdish aspirations for statehood date from the end of the first world war, when the remains of the Ottoman empire were divided into what became the contemporary state system of the Middle East.
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