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TIL TEMIR - The Syriac Military Council and People's Protection Units (YPG) need an urgent line of defense between ISIS and 1,5 million people as the defenders of Tal Tamer (North-East Syria) have been surrounded by ISIS.

According to report taken from Kurdish Question, today the European Parliament passed, by an overwhelming majority, a new resolution for all allies against ISIS explicitly to co-operate with the Syriac Military Council and the YPG in their fight for humanity. Now those defending the Khabur River valley villages and towns and the entire Al-Hasake governorate in Syria face an increasingly dire, actually desperate situation. Facing overwhelming assaults from ISIS forces with overwhelmingly superior military hardware and numbers of fighters since the last week of February, the self-defense militias, Kurds, Syriac Military Council, Sutoro, and Khabur Guards are running out of ammunition and the ability to stop ISIS.

Hundreds of thousands of refugees from other parts of Syria and Iraq are behind these defenses and lack food and shelter. Turkey has closed its border with the area to refugees seeking to escape. The attackers have opened two new fronts and the spread out nature of civilian populations makes a concerted defense less viable than the assault on the Kobani region. A humanitarian and military disaster is on the brink without outside help. Genocide and all manner of atrocities are likely. We are told that the ISIS fighters are primarily “foreigners”—Chechens and Afghans will little concern about civilian populations. They are retaining the hostages previously seized either as bargaining chips or human shields. This area has always been a soft target for ISIS, and we expect them to marshal more forces as they are pushed out of Iraq.

The defenders need immediate coalition air strikes against ISIS, airdrops of ammunition and other equipment, and flooding of the Khabur River to at least delay the ISIS advance. Advanced weapons and training and humanitarian supplies for the area are also urgently needed, as is humanitarian assistance. These likely need to come in across the Iraqi border. ISIS clearly plans to use the region for resupplies via Turkey and opening new fronts in Iraq.

The Syriac Military Council and other self-defense forces are urgently requesting this help as well as the ability to resupply via Turkey or Iraq. The Tel Tamer point (surrounded now by ISIS) seems to be the weakest link in the defensive line against ISIS. After that there is not much anymore that will stop them from attacking 1,5 million civilians in the area and reach even Duhok in Iraq (where are more millions of refugees). No air support has been given in this area since Sunday. Coalition forces have had all information and liaison they need to strike. They did airstrikes last Saturday and Sunday but nothing since then.

If the world does not act we will see a terrible repeat of the situation of last summer when Mosul, Nineveh Plain and Shengal (Êzidi slaughter) were overrun.