US-Backed Militia Groups Now Fighting Each Other In Syria

Source: Telegraph UK

By Richard Spencer, Middle East Editor

If anywhere can show the consequences of American foreign policy under President Barack Obama, it may be the small town of Marea, north of Aleppo.

In the course of the last five years, it has seen Assad regime tanks roll through from the south, firing shells through its houses.

It has been repeatedly attacked from the east by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil). On occasion it has been bombed from the air by the regime and shelled from the ground by Isil on the same day.

Now its rebel defenders are fighting Isil, the regime, Russian bombers, and a new enemy, the Syrian Kurdish militia the YPG, all at once.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/12166474/US-backed-rebel-groups-now-fighting-each-other-in-Syria.html