Islamic State got U.S. weapons meant for Syrian rebels: study


(Worthy News) – Sophisticated weapons the U.S. military secretly provided to Syrian rebels ended up with the Islamic State, a study said Thursday.

Conflict Armament Research, a British-based organization, examined 40,000 weapons and other items recovered from the Islamic State from July 2014 to last month — time which the U.S.-led coalition removed militants from Iraq and Syria.

The 201-page report concludes that “international weapon supplies to factions in the Syrian conflict have significantly augmented the quantity and quality of weapons available to IS forces — in numbers far beyond those that would have been available to group through battlefield capture alone.” [ Source: UPI (Read More…) ]

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