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roamer65

(36,745 posts) Sat Jun 10, 2017, 10:32 AM Jun 2017

Syrian troops reach border with Iraq

Source: Al Jazeera

Tehran now has a land link through Iraq to western Syria and Lebanon.

Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/syrian-soldiers-push-isil-reach-iraqi-border-170610070401646.html

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Syrian troops reach border with Iraq (Original Post) roamer65 Jun 2017 OP

Didn't they before ISIS got territory? Igel Jun 2017 #1

Igel

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1. Didn't they before ISIS got territory?

Reply to roamer65 (Original post)

Sun Jun 11, 2017, 09:55 AM

Jun 2017

I seem to remember something about a supply of munitions headed for Hezbollah a number of years ago. IIRC, it wasn't considered a big deal by a lot of people. At the time, Iran was a the good guy and since it was for Hezbollah, well, Hezbollah wasn't all that bad what with Israel.

It's the old Catch-22. In Syria at the present at least, it seems you get either Assad or ISIS.

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