Video Shows Terrorists in Syria Equipped with US-Made TOW Missiles

Sources in Syria revealed that the US has supplied its state-of-the-art anti-tank missiles to the militants fighting against the Damascus government.

Different Internet websites, including AlHadathnews, have released photos and videos of the US supplied BGM-71 TOW (Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire-guided) anti-tank missiles now being used by the terrorists.

The missiles have been seen at the hands of Hazem militants, who are loyal to former head of the military council of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) Salim Idris, in Idlib countryside in Northwestern Syria.

The Syrian army has on several occasions seized foreign-made, including US-made and Israeli-made, weapons from the terrorists in Syria.

In December 2013, the Syrian army seized Israeli-made weapons in its latest operations against foreign-backed militants in Homs province.

A military source said that Israeli weaponry, including missiles, had been seized in an operation in the central city of Tadmur in Homs province.

A recent British defense study showed that about 100,000 militants, fragmented into 1,000 groups, are fighting in Syria against the government and people.

The extracts of the study by defense consultancy IHS Jane’s were published on September 16.

IHS Jane’s estimates that some 10,000 militants are fighting for groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda such as al-Nusra Front and the rest fight for different militant groups.

The analysis also said that a large number of extremists from foreign countries are also active in Syria.

Syria has been gripped by deadly unrest since 2011. Reports indicate that the western powers and their regional allies, specially Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, are supporting the militants operating inside the country.

According to the United Nations, more than 100,000 people have been killed and millions displaced in the violence.