Less than 50 special operators will be based in Northern Syria, CBS News’ Margaret Brennan reports, to work with groups like Kurdish Peshmerga forces. The video was released on October 30 and is titled “The Reality of the American Raid”, referencing a recent joint raid with the United States to free Kurdish fighters imprisoned by the Islamic State in in northern Iraq.
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“Obama, you have learned a new lesson”, he said.
US officials rescued 70 hostages last week in a raid that left more than 20 ISIS fighters dead and about six captured, CNN reported. You were probably surprised by this.
The head killer of the remaining three prisoners has an accent that sounds like he may be from the Caucasus region, with pale skin showing from beneath his black coverings. His death marks the first USA casualty inside Iraq since military operations there ceased in 2011.
Three Peshmerga fighters are forced to watch a fourth one being beheaded before they meet that fate as well in the horrifying undated video..
The video includes accounts from several people ISIS claims were witnesses to the assault, during which one USA soldier was mortally wounded. It also features an English-language address by a masked jihadi to President Obama. They should accept the de facto containment of ISIS, and instead prioritize non-military approaches, humanitarian support for the refugee crisis and aggressive pursuit of diplomatic options.
He said: “It’s better to stand up and do something if you think you can help, than to just sit back and watch because “hey it’s on the other side of the world and not my problem”. He supports us against you; it is the promise of Allah.
No one is certain of what course the USA may take in response to an increased Russian presence, but for now President Obama maintains his stance that we will not put troops in a combat role in either nation. It interprets as “Peshmerga soldiers in that Americans came down to rescue”.
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A former USA soldier now battling Isis in Syria has warned others thinking of joining the fight not to expect it to be like a computer game. “Our message to them is that we will finish them”, said Dindar Zebari, a spokesman for the Kurdistan regional government. In other words, the U.S. would be backing forces closer to those of Saddam Hussein, who they overthrew twelve years ago. We hold 215 ISIS prisoners and we treat them according to global human rights laws. In that case, the USA would be shooting at ISIS and the Iraqi government, as well as the Iran-backed Shi’ite militias who are coming to increasingly control large parts of the Iraqi military.
