Up until the past few days, US airstrikes in Syria have come in two forms, the ones aimed at directly aiding Kurdish factions against ISIS, and the kind meant to just cause damage to ISIS without an eye toward aiding anyone. Monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is now reporting the first US strikes in aid of a “non-Kurdish” faction in Syria.
The strikes, which began on Friday, were meant to blunt an ISIS offensive against the city of Azaz, which is held by a coalition of Islamist rebels that is dominated by al-Qaeda. Eight were killed in the airstrikes, and 20 wounded.
That was just the tip of the iceberg, however, as the Islamists reported they were “tipped off” about ISIS positions in advance, and captured a large number of them over the subsequent days, publicly beheading a number of captive ISIS fighters.
The rebel faction, which again is al-Qaeda dominated, also released a video showing a battalion of US-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels who are fighting alongside them firing US Tow missiles against ISIS targets outside of Azaz.
Azaz is considered a hugely valuable city because it is on the main highway between the city of Aleppo and the major Syria-Turkey border crossing. ISIS controls much of the border east of Aleppo, while al-Qaeda holds the border region in Idlib up to this part of Aleppo. Other crossings are held by Kurdish factions.
Well, I guess you've got to start somewhere.
Did anyone think that USG truly bombing ISIS, if that was the case tgere wouldn't be any ISIS left in last year bombing. There are not one alike ISIS but others that are named differently, Al-queen, Al-king, Al-barbaric and rest are feed by either Turkish, CCG, Saudis, Israel, Europe and USG, USG not going to bomb his friends nor Angela Markell from Germany or David Cameron from England going to bomb their friends. They bomb the side that supports their Sid of bargaining with weapon and oil sales.
Look, even Amazon sales Isis books, what else is new.
And when al-Qaeda appears to be making gains, the psychopaths running the
USG empire will shift its support (back) to ISIS. The strategy is for all factions
in the region to wipe each other out through perpetual war.
This makes about as much sense as Oboomer (winning) the Nobel Peace Prize.
May 27, 2015 To beat ISIS, kick out US-led coalition
The multinational, American-led ‘Coalition’ launched last August to thwart Islamic State’s (IS, formerly ISIS) march across Syria and Iraq…did nothing. And so Baghdad and Washington are pointing fingers, each accusing the other of being asleep on the job. US Defense Secretary Ash Carter struck a low blow on Sunday in a CNN interview: “What apparently happened was that the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. They vastly outnumbered the opposing force. That says to me… that we have an issue with the will of the Iraqis to fight and defend themselves.”
http://rt.com/op-edge/262393-isis-us-coalition-sy…