UN Report: Islamic State has Enough Weapons To Continue The War For Two More Years

Islamic State fighters parade on military vehicles along the streets of a northern Raqqa province in Syria. (Reuters)

Isis Has Enough Weapons To Carry On Fighting For Two Years, UN Warns -- The Guardian

* Arsenal is sufficient enough to threaten region ‘even without territory’
* Much of Isis’s weapon stocks were stolen from US-backed Iraqi military
* Report recommends sanctions including seizing Isis oil tanker trucks
* Foreign jihadis flocking to Iraq and Syria on ‘unprecedented scale’

A new report prepared for the United Nations Security Council warns that the militant group known as the Islamic State (Isis) possesses sufficient reserves of small arms, ammunition and vehicles to wage its war for Syria and Iraq for up to two years.

The size and breadth of the Isis arsenal provides the group with durable mobility, range and a limited defense against low-flying aircraft. Even if the US-led bombing campaign continues to destroy the group’s vehicles and heavier weapons, the UN report states, it “cannot mitigate the effect of the significant volume of light weapons” Isis possesses.

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Update #1: Isis: UN Warns Terror Group Has Enough Weapons to Carry on Fighting for Two Years -- IBTimes
Update #2: Report: ISIS Has Firepower for Two Years of War in Iraq, Syria -- Newsmax

My Comment: On the other side the Kurds are complaining that they do not have enough weapons to counter the Islamic State .... Iraqi Kurds say West not providing enough arms to defeat Islamic State (Reuters).