The world wept for Paris but for Aleppo.......the silence is deafening

[LeftInTX]

34. I may be wrong, but I got my info from Wikipedia

During the Syrian Civil War, multiple opposition and anti-Assad parties in the conflict have accused Assad of collusion with ISIS; several sources have claimed that ISIS prisoners were strategically released from Syrian prisons at the beginning of the Syrian Civil War in 2011.[190] The Assad government has also reportedly bought oil directly from both ISIS and al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front.[119] United States Secretary of State John Kerry has stated that the Assad government has tactically avoided ISIS forces in order to weaken moderate opposition such as the Free Syrian Army,[191] as well as "even purposely ceding some territory to them [ISIS] in order to make them more of a problem so he can make the argument that he is somehow the protector against them".[192] A Jane's Defence Weekly database analysis confirmed that only a small percentage of the Syrian government's attacks were targeted at ISIS in 2014.[182]

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Analyst Noah Bonsey of the International Crisis Group has suggested that ISIS are politically expedient for Assad, as "the threat of ISIS provides a way out [for Assad] because the regime believes that over time the U.S. and other countries backing the opposition will eventually conclude that the regime is a necessary partner on the ground in confronting this jihadi threat",

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On 1 June 2015, the United States stated that the Assad government was "making air-strikes in support" of an ISIS advance on Syrian opposition positions north of Aleppo

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In 2016, Syrian Democratic Forces found paperwork at a recently captured oil refinery during the al-Shaddadi offensive suggesting that ISIS had sold oil directly to the Assad regime, with a SDF commander stating; "The regime says that it's fighting terrorists, but it's not really. In fact, it's always maintained economic ties. Bashar Assad controls nothing anymore and he has a massive logistical lead in terms of oil especially so he's bought oil from the jihadists, and in return, he's supplied them with weapons".[217]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad (From section entitled Al-Qaeda and ISIS)

Here are a few articles here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/09/29/the-islamic-state-and-assad-two-sides-of-the-same-coin/?utm_term=.ed4c0b7b8ec1

http://time.com/3719129/assad-isis-asset/

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I also have my own personal opinion: If Assad is capable of killing all these civilians, isn't he capable of killing ISIS? Couldn't he have wiped them out? Also he can point to ISIS as a reason to continue his civil war. If ISIS was wiped out, then the West would have a reason to go after him directly.

I could be totally wrong......