https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities...rian_Civil_War
IS now controls all of Raqqah Province with the FSA holdouts either defecting or fleeing to Aleppo Province.
Unconfirmed reports the Libyan Jihadist swore allegiance to IS, but some people there are certainly doing so and posting it to youtube. They aren't the only ones.
Also unconfirmed reports Assad is using Chlorine Gas again.
Kobane is still holding out, but ISA is crushing the pockets of outer defenders one by one and posting the pictures of captured weapons, marijuana (YPG cash crop) which is then burned, and the usual dead bodies and captured troops. YPG again is claiming ISA is using Abrams Tanks against them, but no picture or video evidence is shown so this is likely a means of excusing their defeats.
IS has also apparently ordered recently all its fighters and official accounts to stop posting and imposed a total media blackout to go into effect in just a few hours. So this source of info will dry up leaving SOHR and activists willing to risk death.
Something big is happening in Hasakah Province, a bunch of YPG posters went silent and several videos from ISA showed a fierce battle near Yarubiyah and scores of dead YPG/YPJ fighters. Not much else is known. If its a raid, its apparently successful, if its an anticipated offensive by ISA, then the Airstrikes have had less effect than thought. Turkey will be pleased either way as ISA and YPG are killing each and why break it up.
Well Obama played into IS hands, he is now on the side of Assad, he won't commit the ground forces to win, the FSA/JAN are pissed as hell over JAN and IF getting hit. YPG is flabbergasted and posting conspiracy theories about US working for IS and crying for aid. The Sunni Audience Obama is trying to convince now have been turned off. The correct response to IS was Turkey's. Stay out of it and let all the factions kill each other into stalemate and exhaustion, then twist arms at the negotiation table.
Knowing when to do nothing is just as important as knowing when to act.