Posted on 05/22/2015 11:27:59 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
After taking the ancient city of Palmyra (known in Arabic as Tadmur), the Islamic State has reportedly seized the Syrian side of the Al Waleed border crossing with Iraq. The Syrian side of the crossing is known as Al Tanf.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the regime forces stationed at the crossing withdrew in the face of the Islamic State advance. As SOHR notes, with the capture of the crossing, the Syrian regime has lost control of all crossings with Iraq. The Islamic State also controls the Albu Kamal crossing in Deir al Zour, while the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) control the al Yarobiyyi crossing in Syria’s al Hasakah province.
As a result of the capture, the Iraqi military is said to be sending reinforcements to the Iraqi side of the border. An Iraqi official was quoted in Al Masalah as saying, “The Iraqi Security Forces are in control of the Al Waleed border crossing between Iraq and Syria, but they are not sufficient enough to protect the crossing.” The Al Walid border crossing was captured by the Islamic State along with the nearby Trebil border crossing with Jordan on June 22, 2014. The two crossings were subsequently retaken by the Iraqi military just days later. . .
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Daily we read of ISIS taking over more, and more land, cities, and people.
Curious IF ANYONE is fighting them.
ISIS keeps rolling up the victories and expanding its territory while President “degrade their abilities” keeps obfuscating the facts.
Women, children, homosexual, Christians, Jews, atheists and muslims are being slaughtered in some of the most brutal ways.
Young girls are being sold into sex slavery unless they can hang themselves first with their headscarves.
Meanwhile, liberals in this country proclaim their defense of women’s rights and equality.
No WONDER so many loser young men from around the world are joining up with ISIS. They want to ride with the strong horse! Obama, by contrast, is a plastic merry-go-round PONY.
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