Biotech
13-02-2014, 16:30
Rebels in northern Syria initially planned to launch an offensive against Islamic extremists this spring, but they moved months earlier because the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria was on the verge of seizing a strategic town, according to a new television documentary.
Had they not taken the town from ISIS, rebel commanders feared that their forces would be trapped between ISIS, which was on the verge of controlling much of northern Syria, and Syrian government forces to the south.
The uprising against ISIS pushed the radical Islamist group from roughly half of the 60 or more bases a McClatchy survey determined it had held. The offensive against ISIS sputtered in part because the rebels ran short of ammunition.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/foreign-affairs-defense/syrias-second-front/battle-against-isis-may-help-unify-fractured-syrian-rebels/
Had they not taken the town from ISIS, rebel commanders feared that their forces would be trapped between ISIS, which was on the verge of controlling much of northern Syria, and Syrian government forces to the south.
The uprising against ISIS pushed the radical Islamist group from roughly half of the 60 or more bases a McClatchy survey determined it had held. The offensive against ISIS sputtered in part because the rebels ran short of ammunition.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/foreign-affairs-defense/syrias-second-front/battle-against-isis-may-help-unify-fractured-syrian-rebels/