President Obama’s policy concerning Syria has taken a sharp turn with a number of airstrikes on terror targets after almost three years of red lines and a number of calls for regime change.
Apart from the United States, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and United Arab Emirates have also joined the attacks against ISIS targets in Raqqa, Syria.
Apart from this, attacks by the US on the Khorasan group has been underway and that have been described by Obama as seasoned Al Qaeda operatives who intend to resume attacks on the United States as well as other Western targets.
The President was hesitant to get involved in the Syrian crisis which pitted the authoritarian regime of Bashar-Al-Assad against rebel groups. Not only did he refrain from sending them weapons but he also backed away from approving airstrikes against Al-Assad’s regime.
However, with ISIS’ move to capitalize on the unrest in Syria, he has had no choice but to order these airstrikes despite having no intelligence or ground troops present there. Even though the Syrian president did not approve of these airstrikes, he was still notified of these developments.
Their focus is to stop the flow of foreign fighters who have joined with ISIS and other terror groups in Syria as well. Almost 2000 have come from Europe while about 100 of them were from the United States itself.
With the President himself chairing a session in the United Nations that is flooring a resolution that stop citizens of various nations from leaving to join these terror groups, officials are confident of this resolution being passed.