Western, Gulf Weapons Supplied to Syria Rebels Leaked to Islamic State
(World News USA)

A significant quantity of weapons supplied by Western and Gulf states to opposition factions battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian conflict were transferred to the Islamic State, according to a study funded by the European Union and Germany´s foreign ministry. The leakage of the supplies `significantly augmented the quantity and quality of weapons available to IS forces -- in numbers far beyond those that would have been available to the group through battlefield capture alone,` according to Weapons of the Islamic State, a 202-page study released Wednesday. Conflict Armament Research (CAR), a Britain-based organization that monitors the movement and diversion of...