Posted on 10/09/2015 9:07:45 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Islamic State registered significant gains on Friday in the area of northwestern Syria that Russian warplanes have been bombing, taking six villages near Aleppo and threatening to cut off an important route north to the Turkish border. Late in the day, there were reports that rebels had reasserted control in one village.
The Kremlin has said its military had entered Syria to fight the Islamic State, but the Russian forces have concentrated much of their firepower on insurgent groups aligned against President Bashar al-Assad, including the Nusra Front, Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, and relatively secular groups like the Free Syrian Army. Rival insurgents say that the Islamic State, also called ISIS or Daesh, is taking advantage.
“Daesh has exploited the Russian airstrikes and the preoccupation of the Free Syrian Army in its battles in Hama, and advanced in Aleppo,” one rebel commander told Reuters.
Jalal Zein al-Din, the pen name of a Syrian journalist working in an ISIS-held area of Aleppo Province, said the advance was aided by the United States’ insistence on removing the Nusra Front from the area and leaving only groups the West was willing to deal with. He said the Free Syrian Army could not hold off the Islamic State by itself. . .
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The New York Times prints whatever the White Mosque
fabricates.
The New York Times prints whatever the White Mosque
fabricates.
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Yep, most likely more Obama regime manipulated “intelligence reports”.
you took the words right out of my mouth.
Perhaps there’s a chance ISIS took advantage of the bombed areas and moved in.
No biggie. They will just get hit by the next round of strikes.
Sounds like the Russians will have to “up” their game. Unless they give credence to the next sternly worded letter of protest from our nutless president.
I doubt all of this, but if it is true, Russia will go back and flatten them all over again.
Why would I believe the NY TIMES—mouthpiece for the Obama White House?
Totally apropos.
Shouldn’t this be ISIS make gains in Syria as US bombing reduced
Russia/Syria ping
Russia is ISIS’s air force.
And this is a continuation as under Assad, the biggest killer over there.
ISIS is full of Russian speakers like Omar the Chechen.
No ISIS is actually “full” of Saudi Sunni fanatics. You already know this and you are again lying.
NATO backs up attack on Terrorists in Afhganistan, 100 militants killed.
http://www.rferl.org/content/article/27297738.html
Not a bunch of show.
Why is this not posted yet?
All the propaganda that’s fit to print.
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