ISIS update 5/22/2015..plans to pump Middle East with more weapons

Iraq PM visits Russia to talk arms deal in fight against ISIS

US sending shoulder-fired rocket launchers to Iraqi forces

US plans to pump Middle East with more weapons

Former US military adviser offers insight into ISIS

Gen. Keane: ‘ISIS is a direct threat to the American people’

Dempsey: ISIS didn’t drive Iraqi forces out of Ramadi

Thousands of Iraqis, who fled the city of Ramadi, continue flocking to Baghdad after the city fell into the hands of ISIL terrorists.
Many of the refugees made their way across Buzaibez bridge a day after the government waived restrictions and granted them entry on condition that each family should have a sponsor. The displaced were initially prevented from entering Baghdad province due to fears that terrorists might mingle in with the crowds and sneak into the Iraqi capital. More than 40-thousand people are believed to have been displaced from Anbar province since ISIL terrorists launched their attack on Ramadi. The city, about 100 kilometers west of the capital Baghdad, was captured by terrorists earlier this week.

ISIS fighters seize ancient Palmyra, ‘control more than 50%’ of Syria now

Video shows IS fighters at gas pumping station near Palmyra

Syrian government ‘loses ground’ to Nusra Front and ISIL

Syrian army gains more ground in Hasakah Province

http://www.globalresearch.ca/defense-intelligence-agency-create-a-salafist-principality-in-syria-facilitate-rise-of-islamic-state-in-order-to-isolate-the-syrian-regime/5451216

The newly released DIA report makes the following summary points concerning “ISI” (in 2012 “Islamic State in Iraq,”) and the soon to emerge ISIS:

Al-Qaeda drives the opposition in Syria
The West identifies with the opposition
The establishment of a nascent Islamic State became a reality only with the rise of the Syrian insurgency (there is no mention of U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq as a catalyst for Islamic State’s rise, which is the contention of innumerable politicians and pundits; see section 4.D. below)
The establishment of a “Salafist Principality” in Eastern Syria is “exactly” what the external powers supporting the opposition want (identified as “the West, Gulf Countries, and Turkey”) in order to weaken the Assad government
“Safe havens” are suggested in areas conquered by Islamic insurgents along the lines of the Libyan model (which translates to so-called no-fly zones as a first act of ‘humanitarian war’; see 7.B.)
Iraq is identified with “Shia expansion” (8.C)
A Sunni “Islamic State” could be devastating to “unifying Iraq” and could lead to “the renewing facilitation of terrorist elements from all over the Arab world entering into Iraqi Arena.” (see last non-redacted line in full PDF view.)

… IF THE SITUATION UNRAVELS THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OFESTABLISHING A DECLARED OR UNDECLARED SALAFIST PRINCIPALITY IN EASTERN SYRIA (HASAKA AND DER ZOR), AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE SUPPORTING POWERS TO THE OPPOSITION WANT, IN ORDER TO ISOLATE THE SYRIAN REGIME, WHICH IS CONSIDERED THE STRATEGIC DEPTH OF THE SHIA EXPANSION (IRAQ AND IRAN)
…ISI COULD ALSO DECLARE AN ISLAMIC STATE THROUGH ITS UNION WITH OTHER TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS IN IRAQ AND SYRIA, WHICH WILL CREATE GRAVE DANGER IN REGARDS TO UNIFYING IRAQ AND THE PROTECTION OF ITS TERRITORY.