Reports out of the area around Qayara say that hundreds of additional US ground troops have arrived at the Qayara Air Base, to join several hundred troops already there. The troops are expected to provide “logistic support” for the Mosul invasion.
Iraqi troops “captured” the Qayara Air Base to much fanfare last month, and intend to use this as a base of operation in the attack on Mosul. The base had long since been abandoned by ISIS, stripped clean by ISIS forces that have controlled the area for the past two years.
A lot of effort is being pumped into repair the air base, which was rendered largely useless by heavy US airstrikes in recent years, and a new bridge to allow forces to cross the river and advance against the area south of Mosul.
Though the Pentagon has long warned that it is unlikely the Iraqi military is really ready to take the enormous city of Mosul, US officials have suggested that the invasion could begin as soon as October. Kurdish forces have been seizing ISIS territory north of Mosul and annexing it into their territory, which has Iraq eager to secure as much territory as possible, setting up what are likely the battle lines for the next war in the region.
Why are we sending in more troops? So they can help murder another 62 Syrian soldiers as well as injuring 100? Boy if this is the way the USA treats their allies this shows the reason everyone want the USA to keep the hell out of their country.
The USA do no different than the terrorist. Americans are even questioning the 3 things that the USA is covering; and makes the people of the USA question if the murders we had in the USA over the weekend, were not somehow planned in according to the USA government to keep the focus off the USA murdering Syrian Troops!
I don’t believe it was an accident, too many have happened for the people to believe this terrorist government. Make sure those US troops stay in Iraq and don’t come back to the USA where the government will send them when they get hurt; and the government throws them away like they do ALL people except the rich! To bad soldiers don’t have the intelligence to see they are nothing but a society of throwaways for the government.
This is what happens when government steals the education fund for war. Dumbs down Americans and brings in all these slave labor visa workers to fill all the jobs American are paying for but not being educated to do them cause you will cost too much money! Why are we planning on wars up to 2050 if this is not a corrupt government fleecing the taxpayers? STOP wasting my dollars on USA TERRORISM around the world. I want the damn pot holes in my street fixed and the water in Flint Mi drinkable.
Why no mention of the other rebel fighters that the U.S. has murdered? Why the selective sympathy for the Syrian Arab Army but not rebel groups?
You didn’t include the hundred Jabhat al-Nusra fighters that the U.S. has DELIBERATELY murdered. Jabhat al-Nusra is less extreme than the Syrian Arab Army. Unlike the SAA, JaN does not shoot peaceful protesters. Unlike the SAA, JaN actually condemned the killing of civilians. JaN does not forcibly impose Sharia on many of its areas it controls.
The U.S. should also not have the right to murder Jabhat al-Nusra fighters or any other rebel group allied with Jabhat al-Nusra.
I figured I had said enough, it also allowed people like you to also come in after me and voice your point of view. I agree with you 100% but the saddest part is nobody is holding the bully which is the USA accountable. Our largest export from the USA is weapons. That is why we import everything from slave labor countries, like they are also turning the USA into. The government specifically set up prisons for profits to benefit the corporations.
If lucky I only have a few more decades (being optimistic) of this corruption before I am outta here. That is a sad statement when people want out, rather than be under the control of a country that is turning out to be on the same scale as Hitler’s, maybe even going to be worse if they aren’t reigned in soon. Once again I apologize to the people of the world my government has flat out murdered. Do Not Murder People in MY NAME! Either pay taxes to the terrorist, or be put in prison to work for corporations, otherwise go join the military and make yourself into someone that will be nothing but collateral damage. Great choice in the land of the FREE and the home of the TERRORIST! Only the 1% have any rights in the USA, sad but true.
And how dare you call the United States of America a terrorist group, do you know the amount of brave men and women that have died to preserve this great union. Shame on you for defacing this great free nation.
Really how dare me? Real simple, this country hasn’t been in a legal war since WWII. I have great respect for the Veterans, my dad was one. I have NO RESPECT for a country that keeps its country in a state of perpetual war. If you think this is a free nation, keep burying your head in the sand like a good little Brownshirt. Why don’t you tell me about all the brave cowards going into a country that did nothing wrong and yet we killed their leader? I call that a bunch of cowardly TERRORIST! Clearly people make more working on the internet than you make as a government troll. Sure there are plenty more than happy to give another lemming the URL for all their sites.
How dare I? Simple I pay taxes and that gives me the right to voice my opinion like it or not. I don’t ask this government to commit their treason in my name and if they do I want them accountable, it is people like you that are in rose colored glasses that are destroying what was once a great country, now a third world POS!
What do you want us to do, a state of perpetual war is the current necessity in the US until the world is
Rid of terrorisim, it’s not only us matter it’s a global matter, the world WILL be at war until these threats are eliminated. If we don’t fight global terrorismim who will and who will free Mosul from the control of the isis rsficalists that are ruining this world. The problem was al queda and you know who finally got rid of them, the United States. And we are obligated as the only competent nation on this earth to get rid of the terrorist threats worldwide.
I guess you haven’t seen that the majority of weapons that ISIS uses is made in the USA. We were the ones that ran off from Iraq (after invading ILLEGALLY) and left weapons all over the middle East. There is no denying it Made in the USA is ALL over there. I say with friends like the USA who need enemies? As soon as we killed the 82 soldiers, not 62 the area was overrun and taken by ISIS. Now who do you think people are looking at over this? Oops it was an accident says the USA. That is what a coward says when they won’t accept responsibility for their own actions. USA is the largest manufacturer of weapons around the world.
If we had held Saudi Arabia accountable over their 15 of the 19 hijackers, why did we hit a small country that did nothing to us? Why didn’t we hit Saudi Arabia due to them being the major residence of the hijackers. We are in this state of affairs due to choosing to support non democratic countries. It is against the constitution to sell arms to a country with no democracy, so why are we selling $38 Billion in weapons to Israel which we know is nothing even similar to a democracy? Rid of Terrorism? We are the ones going around the world creating this, why is our pentagon already planning for wars in 2050? Clinton, Bush, & Obama has created this terrorist throwaway society. What do they give us American for our money they won’t even account for? This is not a democracy we live in. We don’t even have a government, we have a corporate government that is nothing but a revolving door filled with rich terrorist.
If the US government doesn’t want to be called a terrorist group, perhaps it should stop operating as one.
Didn’t understand much of that. Perhaps you should consider re-taking that English as a Second Language class.
Thomas, I am a doctorate educated history major, and an expert in political science, in sorry that I type fast when I’m in awe by the statements of some of the people here.
Nobody can answer my question though you all skated around it, how wil lthe world deal with the global terrorisim threats without united states ntervention?
What global terrorism threats? The number and damage of terrorist attacks has been declining for decades.
People’s perception due to news coverage may be different.
We’ll do what it takes to retake Mosul from ISIS — including sending in more troops. But other coalition nations should send in more troops as well. ISIS is now everybody’s problem, and everybody should help to uproot it.
Who’s this “we” you speak of? You got a mouse in your pocket or something?
Somehow I doubt that you (or your mouse) are within 3,000 miles of Mosul, or that you have any intention of picking up a rifle and doing this stuff you’re talking about “we” and “everybody” doing.