Posted on 03/28/2018 7:32:44 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Two days after the Turkish military and allied jihadist forces took control of the Kurdish city of Afrin in northwestern Syria, Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists launched a major attack on Syrian regime forces in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor. The ISIS terrorists killed at least 25 soldiers and seized a large oil field. Around the same time, ISIS militants captured a strategic district in the suburb of Syria's capital, Damascus, where they killed more than 60 government troops.
These two recent advances signal a possible return by the extremist group that only months ago was thought to be largely defeated.
Since Turkey, a NATO ally, launched its Afrin offensive against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) -- a main U.S. ally in the fight against ISIS -- U.S. officials have been warning that the fighting between two U.S. allies is distracting from the main mission, which is defeating ISIS.
"We are very concerned about the effect fighting there has had on our defeat ISIS efforts and would like to see an end to the hostilities before ISIS has the opportunity to regroup in eastern Syria," said Pentagon spokesman U.S. Army Colonel Rob Manning, referring to the Turkish offensive against Kurds in Afrin.
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And in Afrin, Turkey has transplanted ISIS, al Qaeda (Nusra) and Uyghurs (Chinese Muslins) into Efrin. Allowing a protected center for Islamist Terrorists to rebuild and threaten the region.
Tukey is not our ally. It is high time to crush the Turkish forces in Syria with extreme prejudice.
probably the same guys that were surrounded then allowed to go home...
Of course they are. Turkey has convinced Pres. Trump and NATO to throw down on the side of Al Qaeda.
Folks, the war in Syria was almost over. Yes, Assad was about to have won it. But so what? Is it worth 500,000 lives and 30 million refugees, millions of them streaming into Europe to get rid of him? Is it worth handing a nation over to Al Qaeda and ISIS to rule? Because that’s what our foreign policy is doing.
...All so Turkey can continue its genocide against Kurds and Christians.
The day the Islamofascist, Al-Qaeda-loving Erdogan was elected, we should have shredded the NATO treaty with him. Until he is daily being raped by Satan’s pineapple, we must face the ugly fact that Al Qaeda is still in control.
“It is high time to crush the Turkish forces in Syria with extreme prejudice.”
Turks are tougher than hell...send the one man army Hogg over.
He is evil.
We will not attack a NATO member.
We will defend outselves with extreme prejudice if attacked by FSA. Erdogan will not attack the US, knowing full well what we can and will do to him.
Trump will NEVER be on the same side as al Qaeda or ISIS.
Nothing that a couple hundred thousand US troops on the ground can't fix.
This came out this morning, it shows how much the Saudis spent on advancing their Wahhabism, as well as the universities in the U.S.
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/articles/2018/what-will-middle-east-studies-do-without-alwaleed
… In 2005 he gave $20 million each to Harvard and Georgetown.
There are sufficient forces in Syria with the help of the SDF to handle elimination of ISIS.
Problem is Turkey. Do you really think they will fire on US soldiers? Turks won’t, Jihadi’s working for them and ISIS will.
Will we smoke em at that point? Yep.
And it is NOT “just” in Syria:
Turkey hands out ‘warnings’ to US, Iraq, Kurds, Cyprus, and Greece
http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/e0a40b5b-f5ff-4de4-a678-aff2204dd497
I don’t think Erdogan the Islamist thought much of his treatment in EU meetings. They made no concessions for him, but posed for photo op with him that was misleading to the world.
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