Henri Sulku

2 months ago | globalresearch.ca | Patrick Hilsman |Noah Hurowitz |Henri Sulku

Menzeer al-Hamid has started smoking again. Standing in his yard on a hill overlooking the city of Kobane, al-Hamid, a veteran ambulance medic, takes a drag and looks out across his hometown. Turkish jets can be heard roaring overhead, followed by the distant whump of bombs dropping in the countryside. War is closer every day. And as a medic, al-Hamid has been at the center of the fray. “We like freedom and peace — we don’t want to fight,” he says.