ISIL, ISIS, Daesh discussion thread.

Westminster Magistrates' Court heard that Naa'imur Zakariyah Rahman, 20, from north London, planned to detonate a homemade bomb and attack the PM with a suicide vest and a knife.
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Using a suicide vest before attacking with a knife? Not exactly the best plan of attack.
 
Angilion said:
It's been so fashionable for so long to falsely portray Islam as the pure and innocent victim of everything that we now have extremes such as the total whitewash of the Islamic slave trade from history. It was even worse than the Atlantic slave trade, but completely ignored to the extent that few people even know it existed. And yes, it was Islamic.
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Yes it was Islamic and it is Islamic. There are many people in saudi arabia who still have salves, they keep them and use they according to their needs.
Its not totally prohibited in Islam like Wine and Pork. But Islam prohibits slavery.
 
Looks like Turkey are a bunch of cowards, the ground troops they're sending in aren't Turkish troops but FSA. So you've got the US backed and armed YPG/YPJ about to be engaged by Turkish backed FSA. So yeah, proxy war betwixt two NATO allies, what could possibly go wrong with that? I bet Putin is loving this.
 
Malevolence said:
Looks like Turkey are a bunch of cowards, the ground troops they're sending in aren't Turkish troops but FSA. So you've got the US backed and armed YPG/YPJ about to be engaged by Turkish backed FSA. So yeah, proxy war betwixt two NATO allies, what could possibly go wrong with that? I bet Putin is loving this.
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Reportedly the US is being pretty hands off about support for the Kurds especially in this sector - however SDF forces in the area are around 8-12K strong and about 30-40% of them are effectively defending their homeland and likely to put up a bitter defence - not sure what the non-Kurdish units will do if/when things get tough. I imagine things are going to get pretty messy if Turkey push on as the FSA have less investment in the fight than their opposition which will have some impact even with Turkish artillery and potentially air support to back them up.
 
ubersonic said:
Turkey has now started attacking US backed Kurdish rebels in northern syria, alongside Syrian extremists:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-middle-east-42765697

Just when you thought the situation over there couldn't get worse lol.
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Was obvious months ago, not sure how it's surprising to you.

Now that ISIS is "dealt with", the US will just ignore the Kurds practically in all things except for probably one pointless "agreement" once the press gets too hot.
 
StriderX said:
Was obvious months ago, not sure how it's surprising to you.

Now that ISIS is "dealt with", the US will just ignore the Kurds practically in all things except for probably one pointless "agreement" once the press gets too hot.
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They are already talking in terms of "timeframe" for "potentially looking at", etc. which is basically BS for they are doing nothing.

What is interesting though not surprising either is the level of support they seem to have from Assad - which might put pressure on Russia who might be about to be caught in the middle of a diplomatic nightmare.
 
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