U.S Troops in Iraq had their first battle with ISIS early Monday morning when the militant group tried to attack the Ein al-Asad military base, which holds close to 100 U.S. military advisers.
Reports state that American troops decimated ISIS in a two-hour battle that ultimately forced their retreat.
Soldiers were armed with “light and medium” weapons….and fighter jets, whose air strikes against the the militants “silenced their heavy sources of fire.”
Currently, there are no reports of U.S. casualties.
Looks like ISIS had grandiose ideas about how they would fare against our boys….
The U.S. troops, armed with “light and medium weapons,” and were able to inflict casualties against the ISIS fighters, forcing them to retreat, Shafaq News reported.
“US forces intervened because of ISIS started to come near the base, which they are stationed in so out of self-defense,” said Sheikh Mahmud Nimrawi, a prominent tribal leader.
The incident was the first time that American troops clashed with ISIS forces on the ground in Iraq. For several weeks, the United States has led a series of air strikes against ISIS positions in Iraq and Syria, ones aimed at crippling the militant group’s ability to move about the country and coordinate attacks.
ISIS has responded by calling on members to strike out against American interests in the United States and Canada, and also executing Western hostages. Rebels are now reportedly trying to sell the body of American journalist James Foley for a reported $1 million.
Militants are reportedly offering a DNA sample from Foley’s body to prove its authenticity.
“They ask for $1 million, and they will send DNA to Turkey, but they want the money first. They will not give the DNA without the money,” a former Syrian rebel reportedly told BuzzFeed.
The man claimed to be motivated not by greed or a quest for fame, but by a desire to help the mourning Foley family “find closure,” and deemed his outreach as part of a “humanity case.”
The U.S. forces attacked by ISIS in Iraq were part of a small group that remained in the country to offer support and training to tribal fighters.
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1686751/isis-attacks-american-base-in-iraq-in-first-ever-clash-with-u-s-troops/#zjG4awDK2zdFHIoA.99
Listen to you people. Kill! Bomb! Kill them all. You know nothing about this story except what you’re told by corporate controlled media, and it’s KILL KILL KILL? So if you had the chance you would walk up on one of these people and kill them with a bullet to the head? because some media told you they were ISIS and a bad guy? That’s what you’re saying! You know nothing about these people, or their country, and you want to bomb them until they’re all gone? You people are SO controlled. You’re all right where they want you, aren’t you? I bet you believe everything that TV tells you too, don’t you? I bet you believe in man-made global warming too. You’re will-less and don’t ask questions. You’re hopeless.
Come back. Don’t run away!
You should go somewhere in Africa where you would be happy.
It’s ALWAYS our fault, isn’t it, Roger?
roger has a big problem don’t he Gregory
US ground troops should not even be there to start with!!! Not our country not our business! If there was no oil there we wouldn’t even know where it is!
Well we are there and we did what we should have done in the face of the enemy. Go peddle you liberal BS elsewhere.
Roger- choke yourself
Give them hell boys.
They think that they are so smart… Don’t f with america!
Roger, seriously! Wow, you’re delusional at best! What we should have done is stayed until such time as the Iraqis could adequately defend themselves! We are responsible in the sense that we neglected to do that. And our current Muslim in Chief armed the terrorists!