Alwaght- Amnesty International's 44-page report has found that ISIS' Arsenal is riddled with US-made equipment and munitions obtained from the US-Backed Iraqi and Syrian militants .
Military experts have always emphasized that dividing militants in Syria and Iraq into good and bad groups is impossible, as there are intervened interactions among them and many armed and trained fighters leave so-called foreign backed moderate group to join ranks of other extremist groups.
However, the US President has recommitted to leaning on regional forces, including the Iraqis, Kurds and Syrian opposition, to try to wipe out ISIS rather than committing significant numbers of U.S. ground troops .
The Amnesty International report, however, concluded that it was these local forces that had inadvertently contributed arms to ISIS .
After analyzing thousands of videos and images taken in Iraq and Syria, Amnesty determined that a large proportion of ISIS' current military arsenal is made up of "weapons and equipment looted, captured or illicitly traded from poorly secured Iraqi military stocks ."
ISIS has also gained access to weapons from other sources through the capture or sale of Syrian military stocks supplied to militants in Syria by countries including the US, Turkey, and the Persian Gulf States according to the organization .
These weapons, including many accumulated by Iraq over five war-torn decades, were designed or manufactured in 25 countries and range from assault rifles to tanks and anti-aircraft defense systems, the report said .
Amnesty International found that the quantity and range of ISIS' arms and ammunition "ultimately reflects decades of irresponsible arms transfers to Iraq and multiple failures by the US-led occupation administration to manage arms deliveries and stocks securely, as well as endemic corruption in Iraq itself ."
By failing to account for the weapons that have been transferred to Iraq over the last several decades, the US and other supplier nations have allowed them to freely flow through the region and fall into the hands of ISIS and other armed groups in the region, the human rights group reported .
