Authored by AP's Lolita Baldor, via Military.com,
No one disputes that U.S. military forces are fighting in combat in Iraq and Syria -- except maybe President Barack Obama and some members of his administration.
Authored by Eric Zuesse via Strategic-Culture.org,
A leading ISIS terrorist was killed by the Lebanese army on Thursday during operations in the country’s north-east border with war-torn Syria. A second senior Islamic State fighter was also killed and another terrorist arrested. The Lebanese army operation was targeting terrorist “key points” along the border. International Business Times reports: Nayef Shaalan, who also was called Abu Fouz, was the leader of the extremist group aka either ISIL or ISIS in the border town of Arsal, long a stronghold of the militant group.
Syria has strongly condemned the United States for the deployment of troops on its soil, saying that the move amounts to aggression and a gross violation of national sovereignty. Russian media revealed on Wednesday that the first batch of US army personnel, including 150 soldiers and officers, had arrived safely to the Kurdish controlled Rumeilan Military Airport in Syrian territory.
The US have confirmed they will be supplying advanced rocket launcher systems to Turkey in order to allow the Turkish regime to launch a military assault in Syria against the Assad regime. On Tuesday the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced that the US has agreed to supply them with the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HMIARS), a truck mounted rocket launcher used by the U.S. during the Iraq invasion. Sputniknews.com reports: The announcement lends credence to fears that the rockets will be turned against the Assad government.