ISIS smashes colonial-era border, establishes Islamic Caliphate from Mediterranean Sea to Iran

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Reuters, Anbar
Saturday, 21 June 2014
Sunni fighters seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier on Saturday, smashing a line drawn in 1932 by colonial powers and linking hundreds of miles of land they control to create an Islamic Caliphate from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran.

The militants, led by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), first moved into the nearby town of al-Qaim on Friday, pushing out security forces, the sources said.

Once border guards heard that al-Qaim had fallen, they left their posts and militants moved in, the sources said.

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Al-Qaim and its neighboring Syrian counterpart Albukamal are on a strategic supply route. A three-year civil war in Syria has left most of eastern Syria in the hands of Sunni militants, including the Albukamal-Qaim crossing.

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The fighting has divided Iraq along sectarian lines. The Kurds have expanded their zone in the northeast to include the oil city of Kirkuk, which they regard as part of Kurdistan, while Sunnis have taken ground in the west.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/2014/06/21/Iraq-militants-take-border-post-with-Syria.html

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ISIS smashes colonial-era border, establishes Islamic Caliphate from Mediterranean Sea to Iran

Ug. Great. So ISIS is achieving it's goals.

Now what?

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Pretend that all this was inevitable and America only ever had Iraq's best interests at heart, and if it wasn't for nasty Islam they would have suceeded.