Laughing at their own cruelty, ISIS fighters revel in the misery they bring as they force desperate Syrians to turn back from the Turkish border as they try to flee Islamic State territory
- Armed ISIS terrorists forced thousands of desperate Syrian refugees to abandon an escape to freedom at gunpoint
- The men, women and children carried everything they could as they shuffled up to the Tal Abyad border crossing
- But many were forced to return after laughing fighters rounded up the refugees and marched them back into Syria
These
are the laughing Islamic State fighters who forced desperate Syrian
refugees to abandon an escape to Turkey by marching them back across the
border at gunpoint.
Thousands
of people have attempted to flee the across the border to escape ISIS
at Tal Abyad after hearing Kurdish militia were advancing towards the
town, where they fear there could be a bloodbath.
However,
their escape route was blocked by heavily armed members of the terror
group, who rounded up those trying to flee and marched them back into
Syria.
The terrorists laughed with each other
as they forced to the civilians back to the warzone even though heavy
fighting is imminent
Some 13,000 refugees crossed the border at Tal Abyad over the past 10 days according to Turkish officials handling the crisis
The refugees were hauling everything they could possibly carry in an effort to cross the border to freedom and away from ISIS
The Syrians civilians wanted to leave
Tal Abyad before the town was circled by advancing Syrian-Kurdish YPG
troops but were forced back
The YPG has made major advances into
ISIS-controlled territory in recent weeks across northern Syria
following a string of successes
The
jihadists could then be seen revelling as the Syrians were then made to
turn back with their suitcases and belongings into to the ISIS-held
territory.
Meanwhile, Turkish troops watched on helplessly as the civilians were almost within touching distance of the town of Akcakale.
The men, women and children were stopped at gunpoint almost within touching distance of the border town of Akcakale.
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It is
thought that ISIS are keen to force civilians to stay in Syria as they
fear US-led coalition forces may launch airstrikes on Tal Abyad.
If civilians still remain, they believe, the coalition would be reluctant to bomb the area.
It
came before refugees waiting at the border cheered in delight as they
heard that Kurdish militia were making headway towards the ISIS
stronghold before attempting to battle through the barbed wire which
separates Syria from Turkey.
It
came after the Kurdish forces seized at least 20 villages southwest of
the border town, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
said.
Rami
Abdel Rahman, Observatory director, said: 'They [Kurdish forces] are on
the eastern outskirts of Tal Abyad, but the southwestern front is much
more difficult because it's more populated.'
ISIS terrorists stopped the group of
refugees just yards from the border in full view of Turkish troops who
were powerless to intervene
Turkish troops and Isis terrorists
stared at each other just a few yards apart across the barbed wire
border as the civilians retreated
ISIS is facing being attacked by Syrian-Kurdish fighters who are advancing on the town of Tal Abyad, pictured
The YPG has captured large amounts of ammunition, weapons and even vehicles abandoned by ISIS
Heavily-armed terrorists, some carrying U.S. AR-15 assault rifles forced the civilians back to the rapidly approaching warzone
The refugees were attempting to flee the strategically important town of Tal Abyad and cross into the Turkish town of Ackakal
Arin
Shekhmos, a Kurdish activist who visits the front line daily, said the
area's mixed population of Kurds and Arabs was seeking refuge wherever
it could.
He said: 'Tal Abyad is almost completely surrounded.'
Pictures
showed thousands of would-be refugees queuing behind the barbed wire
seeking asylum. They later could be seen breaking their way through the
metal fence, with many crying in desperation as they tried to cross over
into Turkey.
Smoke can be seen billowing over the
outskirts of Tal Abyad from the Turkish border town of Akcakale after a
US-led airstrike targeting ISIS fighters
A Turkish armoured personnel carrier
is stationed at the border fence between Syria and Turkey, where
refugees are queuing up to escape into Akcakale
Turkish soldiers guard their border
with Syria. Yesterday thousands of Syrians made their way into Turkey by
cutting through the border fence
A Turkish army soldiers guards the
border area with Syria as refugees wait in the background trying to
cross into Turkey to flee fighting
The refugees are trying to escape from
intense fighting in northern Syria between Kurdish fighters and members
of the Islamic State
Women
clutching their children could be seen climbing through the fence after
the refugees charged and found a gap in which they could slip through.
Earlier
today, a Kurdish activist in the symbolic battleground town of Kobane,
which was liberated from ISIS by the Kurds earlier this year, said
authorities had set up a camp for the displaced.
'We
are waiting for the whole border area to be liberated - from
northeastern Syria all the way to Kobane,' Mustafa Ebdi told AFP.
The
Turkish health ministry confirmed that 13,000 people have crossed the
border, which is the only crossing point in the area, since the
beginning of the month.
Syrian refugees waiting on the Tal
Abyad border cheered in delight as they heard that Kurdish forces were
making headway towards the ISIS-held town before attempting to battle
through the barbed wire which separates Syria from Turkey as they
desperately tried to flee
Women clutching their children could
be seen climbing through the fence after the refugees found a gap in
which they could slip through
Young children were held by their
parents as they were pulled through the barbed wire fencing to help them
escape the clutches of ISIS
One young girl was pulled through the
barbed wire fence as the Syrian refugees desperately tried to flee the
ISIS-held town of Tal Abyad
The Syrian refugees walked into Turkey
after crossing from Syria into Akcakale in the Sanliurfa province after
breaking through the fence
Syrian refugees climb through the
fencing on the Tal Abyad border after Kurdish forces revealed they were
heading towards Tal Abyad
A
statement by the main Syrian Kurdish fighting force, known as the YPG,
said its fighters have encircled the ISIS-held town of Suluk, a few
miles southwest of the strategically important town of Tal Abyad.
It
said ISIS militants have 'lost control' over Suluk and Kurdish forces
were advancing toward Tal Abyad. It also said the road linking Tal Abyad
with Raqqa was under YPG control.
Tal
Abyad lies on a mostly Sunni Arab part of the border between mainly
Kurdish Kobane and Syria's most populous ethnic Kurdish region - Hasakeh
province - in the northeast.
Northern
Syria is the most complex battleground in the country's more than
four-year civil war, with ISIS fighting Kurdish militia, Syrian
government forces and a rebel alliance including rival jihadists of
Al-Qaeda.
In
Syria, the U.S. has found a reliable partner in the country's strongest
Kurdish militia, the YPG. They are moderate, mostly secular fighters,
driven by revolutionary fervour and deep conviction in their cause.
Since
the beginning of May, they have wrested back more than 200 Kurdish and
Christian towns in northeastern Syria, as well as strategic mountains
seized earlier by ISIS.
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