The most effective of the jihadist militias has joined with Al-Qaeda, and that’s the main reason for the sudden doubling of US aid and the training assistance in Jordan for the previously crumbling FSA, as well as the renewed moves in Europe to officially lift the arms embargo.
Arms have been shipping to the various militias from various sources, including the Gulf (of course) and eastern Europe. The ethnic jihadist gangs which have arrived get their arms and ammo from whatever source their homeland uses.
It’s interesting and informative that Qatar and the Kingdom support different factions; the Turks were aligned with Qatar, which is the reason Kerry and Obama have been intercoursing Israel (the apology); the Turks’ main concern was the rapidity of the collapse of their former budding alliance with Iran.
Iran played Erdogan and got him diplomatically and militarily isolated, then when Syria blew up, revived ties with Russia — Turkey’s major enemy, historically — and immediately started massive aid to Syria, including troops ( last year already) both Iranian and Hizbullah proxies. Syria is obviously disintegrating, and Turkey doesn’t want another Lebanon, particularly one with a common border.
It’s already too late to stop that.
The Turks will have to deal fairly with the Kurds now, because they’ll need both a new ally and a buffer state against the various fellow bloodthirsty Muzzie despotates (Syria, Iraq, perhaps eventually Iran), and will have to make a series of additional politically suicidal moves — rapprochement with Israel, EU-acceptable concessions on Cyprus (TRNC), improved relations with Greece.
I WAS going to get up and stretch. But you've done that for me.