[AlAhram] U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says America will continue to provide weapons to Syrian Kurdish fighters after the battle to oust Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
turbans from Raqqa, Syria.
Describing American reassurances to
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
that the U.S. will take back weapons given to the Syrian Kurds after the IS group fight, Mattis says it depends on when or where the next mission is.
And he's also sounding a cautionary note when asked if all the weapons would be returned.
"We'll do what we can," the defense secretary told news hounds traveling with him to Germany Tuesday.
Mattis' comments marked the first time he has spoken at length publicly about the U.S. pledge to recover the weapons provided to the Kurds.