Let's be clear that controlling Deir ez-Zor's oil fields is not means to American greed, except means to ensuring Kurdish peoples and Sunni-Arab tribes local to that area, rather than ISIS, Russia, or Iran, get prosperity and peace from their lands. We can protect that oil to help its..…
The answer concerns how recent events intersect with ISIS's long-term needs. . ... The Trump administration's position on the Syrian civil war has shifted from countering ISIS to containing Iran. ..…
The U.S. did not defeat ISIS-Daesh. It was the Syrian Arab Army, aided by Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah which waged the campaign against ISIS-Daesh. . . . . ..…
The Pentagon began to realign itself by partnering with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces as ISIS grew increasingly powerful, Islamists overtook the opposition and Russia joined Iran in backing Assad against these factions. . ..…
West, Gulf countries, and Turkey support the opposition while Russia, China, and Iran support the regime... U.S bought weapons for Syrian rebels — and some wound up in the hands of ISIS terrorists, sought to spin how ISIS found awash with weapons and in dominate position among Syria's..…
most of the country that Americans so hard and long to liberate could become, de facto, colony of Iran. Ironically, most Shia Muslims Iraq -- who suffered under Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and at the hands of ISIS -- have no stomach for takeover by foreign, Iranian militias. ..…