https://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/danyves/240515/secret-pentagon-report-reveals-us-created-isis-tool-overthrow-syrias-president-assad
>Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US "Created" ISIS As A "Tool" To Overthrow Syria's President Assad
>And while speculation was rife that just like the CIA-funded al Qaeda had been used as a facade by the US to achieve its own geopolitical and national interests over the past two decades, so ISIS was nothing more than al Qaeda 2.0, there was no actual evidence of just this.
>That may all have changed now when a declassified secret US government document obtained by the public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows that Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad.
>According to investigative reporter Nafeez Ahmed in Medium, the "leaked document reveals that in coordination with the Gulf states and Turkey, the West intentionally sponsored violent Islamist groups to destabilize Assad, despite anticipating that doing so could lead to the emergence of an ‘Islamic State’ in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
>According to the newly declassified US document, the Pentagon foresaw the likely rise of the ‘Islamic State’ as a direct consequence of the strategy, but described this outcome as a strategic opportunity to “isolate the Syrian regime.”
Document here
https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf
http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Analysis-With-Syria-crumbling-Israels-security-situation-has-never-been-better-404909
>Analysis: With Syria crumbling, Israel's security situation has never been better
>Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan said Tuesday that Israel's security situation on the northern border has improved as a result of the Syrian civil war, which has served to drain the blood of Hezbollah.
>As far as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minsiter Moshe Ya'alon are concerned, these comments verge on heresy. If our security situation has improved, does the IDF really need additions to its budget? And what about the approach taken by Netanyahu, who continues to warn, on every possible occasion, of the threat of Iran, Hezbollah, and Islamic State?
>Indeed, Israel's strategic situation has never been better. Arab states that were once armed to the teeth, such as Libya and Iraq, have fallen apart. Egypt is a military and intelligence ally of Israel in its fight against Hamas the Sinai terror threat.
>Syria, prior to the civil war, 50 months ago, was the greatest threat to Israel, and even then, to those who knew the truth, the country did not serve as that much of a serious threat. Today, Syria no longer actually exists as one sovereign, political entity, but rather it is broken up into territories. A small region in the northeast is the Kurdish enclave. Half of the country's land, most of which is desert, mainly in the east, is controlled by Islamic State. In northern Syria and in the South on the border with Israel, in the Golan Heights, control is largely in the hands of the Nusra Front (the al-Qaida affiliate which has been made more moderate by funding from Qatar). The rest, which includes Damascus, the center of Aleppo, Homs and the coastal strip on the ports of Latakia and Tartus, in which Assad's Alawite minority resides, remain in control of the regime. Soon, a new Druse enclave is also likely to be formed in the area of Druse Mountain in southeast Syria, near the approach to the Jordan border.