{"id":2254,"date":"2017-12-14T12:41:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T13:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/us-arms-wound-up-in-the-hands-of-isil-terrorists-study\/"},"modified":"2017-12-14T12:41:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T13:41:42","slug":"us-arms-wound-up-in-the-hands-of-isil-terrorists-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/us-arms-wound-up-in-the-hands-of-isil-terrorists-study\/","title":{"rendered":"US arms wound up in the hands of ISIL terrorists: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sophisticated weapons the US military secretly provided to so-called moderate militants fighting the Syrian government quickly fell into the hands of the Daesh terrorist group, also known as ISIL or ISIS, according to a new study.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe possession of these arms by Daesh remains a threat to the US-led coalition forces still operating in Syria and Iraq, according to the study released Thursday by Conflict Armament Research (CAR), a UK-based organization that monitors the movement of conventional weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tThe weapons included anti-tank rockets purchased by the US military that ended up in possession of ISIL within two months of leaving the\u00a0factory, according to the study, which was\u00a0funded by the European Union and German government.<\/p>\n

\n\tEfforts by the US and other countries to supply weapons to militant groups \u201chave significantly augmented the quantity and quality of weapons available to (ISIL) forces,\u201d the report concluded.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe study\u00a0examined 40,000 weapons and other items recovered from Daesh, during the past three years. The militants have been retreating across Iraq and Syria as U.S.-backed forces have routed them from their strongholds.<\/p>\n

\n\tCAR researchers were unable to determine whether Daesh captured the weapons on the war zone or whether the militants sold or gave the arms to the terror group.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe report cites an ISIL propaganda video showing the terror group\u2019s fighters with weapons captured last year from the so-called New Syrian Army, a coalition of militant groups battling the government forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt has long been known that ISIL captured huge amounts of US weapons, including tanks and artillery, when the terror group swept into Syria and Iraq in 2014.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe White House ended a secretive CIA operation begun by the administration of then President Barack Obama in 2013 to arm anti-Assad militants.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe covert program arming anti-Assad militants is distinct from the Pentagon’s publicly acknowledged operation to arm the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces fighting ISIL, but not Assad.<\/p>\n

\n\tSaudi Arabia, which like the US\u00a0strongly opposes the Syrian government, also supplies weapons to militant groups.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new study raises questions about other sources for weapons.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe report said most of the weapons secretly\u00a0sent to militants in Syria were purchased by the United States and Saudi Arabia from arms manufactured in Eastern Europe. It said the way the US government purchased the weapons raised troubling concerns about controlling arms sales.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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