2007

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/05/the-redirection

To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has cooperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.

 

2010

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/08/should-afghanistan-be-broken-into-smaller-countries/344543/

2013  https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/world/middleeast/arms-airlift-to-syrian-rebels-expands-with-cia-aid.html

 

2014

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/22/isis-us-airdrop-weapons-pentagon

2014

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/10/21/u-s-accidentally-delivered-weapons-to-the-islamic-state-by-airdrop-militants-allege/

2017

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/12/14/u-s-bought-weapons-syrian-rebels-and-some-wound-up-hands-isis-terrorists/949209001/

 

2017

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/364917-study-shows-us-weapons-given-to-syrian-rebels-ended-up-in-isiss-hands

 

2017

https://www.newsweek.com/how-isis-got-weapons-us-used-them-take-iraq-syria-748468

2020

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-seeking-carve-out-sunni-state-its-influence-iraq-wanes

 

2021

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/08/30/afghanistan-papers-craig-whitlock

2021

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhartung/2021/08/27/afghanistan-is-just-the-latest-case-of-us-arms-ending-up-with-us-adversaries/?sh=6ee1ef906685