A new petition has been launched on White House official website to ask the Obama Administration to officially arm the People's Protection Units (YPG) of Syria to defend ISIS from destroying the Kobanê community.

Signatories are calling for the United States to provide better weapons to the People’s Protection Units (YPG) of northern Syria, solely a defensive unit that protects the Kurdish inhabited areas of Syria from any aggression, and in this case, the atrocities committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Kobane.

"It has been noted that airstrikes from the West are not enough to stop ISIS from their goal to establish a new Islamic rule across the Middle East through an extremely violent and deadly process. Evidently, ISIS is a threat to humanity. Due to the fact that YPG is highly outgunned by ISIS with looted weapons, YPG is unable to stop the Jihadists", reads the text of the petition, stressing that it is undoubted that with better and more modern weapons, YPG would efficiently halt ISIS’ motives to gain control of Kobane.

The online petition which aims to reach 100,000 thousand signatories by November 7, 2014 can be signed at https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/officially-arm-peoples-protection-unit-ypg-syria-defend-isis-destroying-kobane-community/MqkGM32Y