State Department and the Pentagon directed their energies to corralling and coordinating individual European contributions. In the run-up to the Iraq war, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, frustrated by France and Germany’s opposition, divided Europe into two: old and new. ..…
Before the evacuation of 1,000 American troops from northern Syria to western Iraq, the Pentagon had 2,000 US forces in Syria. ..…
Whether Baghdadi or others headed ISIS leaves unexplained that the terror group was created, supported and controlled by the US, their fighters used as proxy troops, deployed to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen and elsewhere, aided by Pentagon terror-bombing. ..…
The United States did not plan the formation of ISIS, but its destructive interventions in the Middle East and the war in Iraq were the basic causes of the birth of ISIS.” . . ... The Pentagon’s flirting with extremist Islamic groups is not new. Remember the mudjahedin, from 1979 they..…
On the following day, US President Donald Trump noted that American troops leaving Syria would be redeployed to remain in the region 'to monitor the situation and prevent a repeat of 2014, when the neglected threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant raged across Syria and Iraq'. ...…
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