December 15 2017
A large amount of the weapons supplied by Western and Gulf countries to rebels battling the Bashar Assad regime in Syria were transferred to the Islamic State terrorist group, says a new report cited by the Voice of America News.
The weapons "significantly augmented the quantity and quality of weapons available to IS forces -- in numbers far beyond those that would have been available to the group through battlefield capture alone," according to the Weapons of the Islamic State...
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