This guy was fighting with the Kurds, and probably not far from US special forces guys doing the same thing. For all anybody knows he could have been a CIA embed.
We’re essentially in agreement. I have no reason to believe he was CIA, but he was definitely fighting with people who are fighting with CIA and SOF forces. I cannot say about the other poster, but some folks here are very much in the pro-Assad camp because of their fondness for Putin. They therefore claim anyone fighting against Assad is ISIS. They also ignore Assad’s ties to al Qaeda during the years the US was in Iraq and Assad was facilitating al Qaeda as they travel to Damascus and on to Iraq to kill Americans. They also ignore Assad’s ties to Hezbollah and Iran. But some even now support Iran since they believe we must fight all Sunni Muslims, which also ignores the fact that the Kurds are mostly Sunni. To the say the least, some people just don’t want Assad to lose and see him, like Putin, as a paladin of Christianity, a very weird idea.