ISIS

One day after reprorting that British military information services Janes, had found confirmation of several shipments amounting to 3,000 tons of weapons and ammo to Al-Qaeda linked Syrian rebels in a transport solicitation on the U.S. government website FedBizOps.gov, today Veterans Today goes deeper into the rabbit hole and reports that several Iraqi policemen claim to have seen US aircraft dropping weapons and munitions for ISIS terrorists in a region west of the Anbar province on Friday.

Several Iraqi policemen claim to have seen a US aircraft dropping weapons and munitions for ISIS terrorists in a region west of the Anbar province on Friday. The police purportedly claimed that the American plane also jammed their communication devices in Hadisah Island. AlAlam reports: “There is an American aircraft seen at four o’clock in the morning on Friday over the Hadisah Island district of the Anbar province, delivering weapons and munitions to ISIS criminals,” one of the policemen says.

While the "war against ISIS" has been quietly pulled from the front pages in recent months (even as both Russia and the US continue to pile forces into Syria), having served its political purpose, it continues on the ground. As evidence we have the following newly-released videos show Russian Mil Mi-28NE Night Hunter helicopters hunting Islamic State vehicles in Syria.

Russian helicopters, warplanes strike ISIS during Palmyra liberation https://t.co/H2hWGrQRUz pic.twitter.com/9pOpIKSsGG

A court is Istanbul  has ruled that well-known Turkish journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül will stand trial behind closed doors on controversial charges of espionage and divulging state secrets. Dündar, editor-in-chief of the leading opposition daily Cumhuriyet and Gül, the newspaper’s Ankara bureau chief, face life sentences for publishing a story that said Turkey was delivering arms to Islamist rebels in Syria.

The Syrian army is 850 meters away from retaking the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria which has been systematically destroyed by the Islamic State/IS/ISIS. The city has become encircled by Syrian troops aided by Russian helicopters targeting armored ISIS vehicles. China Xinhua reports: The Syrian force also used motorcycles in their attack on the IS in Palmyra due to the geographical nature of that area.