Olivier Knox
Yahoo
The United States and its partners are escalating their air war in Syria against the so-called Islamic State, reflecting the allies’ frustration with progress in the military campaign and disappointing efforts to arm friendly rebels on the ground there, as well as alarm over the exploding refugee crisis now engulfing Europe, according to U.S. officials and Western diplomats.
There’s a growing belief in Washington and other Western capitals that “we’re not winning this at the moment, and we need to redouble our efforts collectively,” a senior Western diplomat told reporters on Wednesday.
“A number of Western governments are looking at the combination of the humanitarian crisis, the failure to resolve the situation in Syria and the continued activity of ISIL and concluding that we need to do more to tackle this appalling problem,” the diplomat said, using another name for the Islamic State.
Plans to ramp up the military campaign are intertwined with a “top-to-bottom” reassessment of how Washington and its Western European allies are handling the refugee crisis, a U.S. official said on condition of anonymity.
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