WorthyNewsBot Posted December 15, 2017 Group: Bots Followers: 3 Topic Count: 39,879 Topics Per Day: 6.47 Content Count: 44,221 Content Per Day: 7.18 Reputation: 983 Days Won: 2 Joined: 06/06/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted December 15, 2017 (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...) ] View the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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