The age of Obama is the age of jihadi advance.
“ISIS massacres 300 and kidnaps at least 400 including women and children during attack on government-held city,” by Tom Wyke, MailOnline, January 17, 2016:
ISIS have abducted at least 400 civilians including women and children after capturing new territory in an assault on Syria’s eastern city of Deir Ezzor.
Activists from the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said they believed ISIS rounded up the civilians following an attack on the north of the city.
‘After their attack on Deir Ezzor yesterday, IS abducted at least 400 civilians from the residents of the Al-Baghaliyeh suburb it captured and adjacent areas in the northwest of the city,’ the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
‘Those abducted, all of whom are Sunnis, include women, children and family members of pro-regime fighters,’ Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
They were transported to areas under ISIS control in the west of Deir Ezzor province and to the border with the Raqqa province to the northwest.
The IS attack on Deir Ezzor on Saturday killed at least 85 civilians and 50 regime forces, the monitor said.
ISIS posted a statement confirming they had launched a ‘massive assault on Syrian regime positions’ in the city of Deir Ezzor.
The jihadi group claimed they have gained control over the radio tower, several warehouses and outskirt neighbourhoods.
It also claimed it had killed ‘dozens’ of Assad regime soldiers.
‘The battles are ongoing until now and we ask Allah for victory and consolidation….

Rich says
Yessir, they are “contained”. Thanks, Obama, for clarifying that.
PRCS says
Islamic State “fighters” (Sunnis) are asking Allah for victory and consolidation–
Syrian forces (mostly Sunnis, too + Alawites) are probably asking Allah for victory and consolidation, too.
What’s Big Al to do?
Alex says
Syrian forces operate under secularism, not according to the Qu’ran. Big difference.
PRCS says
But they ARE Muslims, whose primary allegiance is to Islam; and who are–like IS “fighters”–asking Allah for victory and consolidation, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Armed_Forces
The majority of the Syrian military are Sunni, but most of the military leadership are Alawites. Alawites make up 12 percent of the Syrian population but are estimated to make up 70 percent of the career soldiers in the Syrian Army.[11][37] Of the 200,000 or so career soldiers in the Syrian Army, 140,000 are Alawites.[38] A similar imbalance is seen in the officer corps where some 80 percent of the officers are Alawites. The military’s most elite divisions, the Republican Guard and the 4th Armoured Division, which are commanded by Bashar al-Assad’s brother Maher, are exclusively Alawite. Most of Syria’s 300,000 conscripts were, however, Sunni but that number is speculated to be changing now
Alex says
Yes they are Muslim but they are not acting according to Islamic law. They could be asking Allah to grant them victory, but that’s the same as a Christian asking Allah for victory in this case as they are not fighting for islamic law.
However, terrorist groups fight according to their islamic teachings.
duh_swami says
Alex…Allah is a false god and the ‘Prophet’. was a murderous pervert…So sharia is based on lies and deception. an the words of a pervert…Nothing good has ever come out of that…
Mo says
What a hellhole that country seems to be!
And where do these ISIS savages even hold so many people?
Judi says
All muslim countries are hellholes.
Jay Boo says
NPR cries with indignation about non-government-held cities full of ISIS fighters not receiving enough food and water when surrounded by pro-Assad forces but says essentially nothing of condemnation over this.
Angemon says
What, you expected them to admit they killed civilians?
mortimer says
It’s a war crime to take civilian hostages or execute them as a reprisal, but not in Islam where almost any crime may be justified as ‘revenge’.
underbed cat says
Mortimer seems that is exactly the method, the legacy of orders to remove Assad, from headquarters, to justify every savage attack as” revenge”.
Jack Holan says
ROBERT. Do you think any of those military age ‘Refugees’ hale from this suburb & told wife/s and family I’ll send for you? Meantime they are enjoying their laurels in Europe, abandoned their native Family to their fate and have new good times
Matthieu Baudin says
One could safely say that there was never a decisive thought or action in the Obama Administration’s approach to the Syrian Civil War.