US and coalition airstrikes continue to pound ISIS in Syria, with the latest attacks focusing on ISIS fighters advancing into the Kurdish area around Ayn al-Arab in northern Syria.
Despite that area being the new focus of the airstrikes, the attacks do not appear to be slowing ISIS even a little, as the group continues to press ahead into more Kurdish villages, and civilians continue to flee into neighboring Turkey.
“Those air strikes are not important,” noted one of the refugees, who called for US troops on the ground to retake the villages for the Kurdish factions there.
The ISIS battles with Syrian Kurds seem to be a major source of pressure for US involvement in Syria, with influential Kurdish factions trying to paint Ayn al-Arab with the same false narrative of humanitarian calamity as Mount Sinjar, which was the initial pretext for the US attacks in Iraq.
In Iraq, the US airstrikes are being done nominally to aid Kurdish fighters on the ground, and that’s had little success either. Officials continue to insist the US isn’t considering ground operations, though they continue to escalate the war in ways that are adding to pressure to commit boots on the ground, pointing to a lack of planning or an intention to eventually renege on the promise of no ground troops.
If yesterday's bombing is any indication, the US is more intent on vandalizing Syria than fighting ISIS. There is only one country that can transit the oil produced by refineries now under control by the caliphate – Turkey. Does anyone actually believe that Turkey cannot control the influx of 10,000 barrels of crude a month over its borders ?
"pointing to a lack of planning or an intention to eventually renege on the promise"
I think they are just making it up as they go. The drive to act NOW is the midterm in six weeks, an outrage just six weeks before an election is a "crisis."
ISIS is like God. Can't be stopped by the SAA, or the Turks, or KSA, nor by American bombs and airstrikes.
I bet the US wishes they had these guys working for them!
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the coalition of used kleenex does not include any in central or south america but shamefully and embarassingly harper signs up canada who now yaps about expanding our involvement.
The Feds are running a bankrupt Ponzi scam $15 trillion whatever in debt. When the credit expires, the empire, presumably, expires too.
Anyone know why the iou's being issued by these clowns are still being traded anywhere?
But is a training for Qatar/Saudi Arabia/ in case of contius war with Iran done the road.
The main agenda in regime change of syrian, Iranian governments are not touched by Barack Hussein Obama and the idea is not going to be touched by Hillary Clinton or war parties presidential candidates in 1 1/2 year time. At the sane time the cleansing of Kurdish people in northern Syria is for Turkish Erdogan government to invade Syria, when a agreement signed confirming the fact that syrian government has to be changed and replaced by an Saudis/Qatar/UAE regimes lesser terrorist groups. That's what Erdogan regime demanding if USG wants for Turkish government participation in bombing ISIS.
The other problem facing Turkish Erdogan regime is the kurds wanting to have their states to be established, by cleansing Kurdish people from the area, Turkish Erdogan government have secured its idea which is the main reason for Turkish Erdogan regime supporting ISIS and all other lesser or more terrorists orgonization in Syria and Iraq.
The Neo liberalism/fascism religious or otherwise are in business redrawing the Middle East map. Islamization is part of that idea, the militarization is the other part.