MESOP QUOTATION FACING KOBANE : To stem ISIL advance, US must clarify Syria strategy

Washington’s ‘confused’ policy in Syria, and a strategy of containment rather than destruction have allowed the extremist group to exist despite airstrikes, writes Foreign Correspondent Antoun Issa – “The US strategy of using the Kurds to roll back ISIL in Syria has come to an end” @joshua_landis quoted in my latest http://www.thenational.ae/world/americas/to-stem-isil-advance-us-must-clarify-syria-strategy … www.mesop.de