ISIS Hostage Rescue Abandoned After U.S. Special Forces Take Heavy Fire

[flowers]

http://www.inquisitr.com/1721785/isis-hostage-rescue-abandoned-after-u-s-special-forces-take-heavy-fire/

ISIS hostage rescue attempts by U.S. Special Forces were abandoned after the team took heavy fire in Syria. Jordanian fighter pilot Muadh al-Kasasbeh was reportedly being held in the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa – in northern Syria.

The U.S. Special Forces were carried to Syria to rescue the Jordanian fighter pilot via two gunships. Muadh al-Kasasbeh was captured by ISIS on December 24. Heavy raids on Islamic State fighters were carried out by coalition troops during the rescue attempt last night.

Muadh al-Kasasbeh, 26, if the first military pilot to be captured by ISIS since the international coalition forces began fighting the Islamic State in September. The Jordanian fighter pilot was reportedly one of several captives who would have been saved had the U.S. Special Forces rescue mission not been abandoned in Syria.

Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently anti-ISIS campaign activist Abu Ibrahim al-Raquaoui confirmed that two hostage rescue missions were attempted on January 1, according to an International Business Times report. Five coalition aircrafts reportedly hovered over Raqqa at a low altitude while a