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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIRAQ/SYRIA is becoming like GAME OF THRONES...
Could ISIS now be twice as powerful? Membership of extreme group may double in size as it merges with al Qaeda's 15,000-strong Syrian offshoot on border with IraqThe number of Islamist extremists fighting for ISIS could double after al-Qaeda's 15,000 strong offshoot in Syria is said to have pledged allegiance to the militant group.
The merger is believed to have taken place in Albu Kamel - on the border of Syria and Iraq, where all of the crossings are currently in the hands of Sunni militia, many of them members of ISIS.
Full article: Daily Mail UK
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IRAQ/SYRIA is becoming like GAME OF THRONES... (Original Post)
CJCRANE
Jun 2014
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MineralMan
(146,192 posts)1. It pretty much always has been.
There's really nothing new about factional disputes in the Middle East.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)2. It's accelerated
and we're watching it play out in almost real-time.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)3. It all goes up and down, endlessly.
We need to stop meddling in Middle Eastern politics. Really we do. It can never lead to anything positive that lasts.
You'd think we'd learn that lesson, but it seems like we never do.