Islamic State gaining weapons and land: Barack Obama dimisses recent setbacks
Islamic State Fighters
The Islamic State has apparently taken over a provincial capital city in Iraq:
May 21, 2015
Islamic State fighters are poised to seize one of the largest arms depots in Syria after taking control of the city of Palmyra, home to a UNESCO World Heritage Site that experts fear the extremists may loot and destroy as they have done with major archaeological sites in neighboring Iraq.
With Palmyra in their grasp, the Islamic State group has now scored two major strategic victories this month: Five days ago, the militants overran Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s largest province, Anbar.
Days after saying Islamic State fighters were on the defensive across Iraq, the U.S. military tried to downplay Ramadi’s fall earlier this week, portraying it as a part of the ebb and flow of a “complex, bloody fight.”
U.S. President Barack Obama described the loss of Ramadi as a tactical setback, while insisting the war against the jihadist group is not being lost.
“I don’t think we’re losing,” Obama said in an interview with news magazine The Atlantic, which appeared online Thursday. The interview took place just after Ramadi had fallen to Islamic State fighters.
“There’s no doubt there was a tactical setback, although Ramadi had been vulnerable for a very long time, primarily because these are not Iraqi security forces that we have trained or reinforced,” he said in The Atlantic interview. …
Strategic blow for Syria …
Among the immediate prizes is one of Syria’s biggest weapons depots as well as army bases, an airport, the significant gas fields of al-Hail and Arak and a notorious prison that has long been viewed as a symbol of state repression.
One Syrian soldier said Damascus’ forces were overwhelmed at Palmyra
“The IS militants have tanks, mortars, missiles, and heavy machine guns,” the soldier said. “Their weapons are advanced. They launched the attack from many directions, with each group consisting of a dozen to some 30 people.”
Rami Abdelrahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based monitoring group that relies on activists inside Syria for its information, said Thursday at least 100 pro-government fighters had been killed since Wednesday.
The Observatory also said with the latest westward advance, Islamic State militants now control more than half of Syrian territory. http://www.voanews.com/content/islamic-state-seizes-ancient-ruins-in-syrias-palmyra/2780615.html
The USA spent a lot of time, money, training, plus lost US lives, in Iraq. The military of the USA then mainly abandoned Iraq as its political leaders forced them to. The end result in Iraw has not been as the USA expected.
As far as Syria goes, as I have been writing for years, the time will come when the Assad regime there will change.
Also the Bible has the following prophecy:
1 The burden against Damascus.
“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
And it will be a ruinous heap. (Isaiah 17:1)
The above prophecy has still not been fulfilled–but it will be.
We may be getting close to that time. Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.
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