ISIS Taking U.S.-Airdropped Weapons An 'Embarrassment'; Another Yazidi Massacre Looming [VIDEO]

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants have seized at weapons that were supposed to be airdropped by U.S.-led coalition forces to the Kurdish troops. Reports said the cache of weapons included ammunition, hand grenades and rocket-propelled launchers. A media group allegedly supporting ISIS has uploaded a video of the militants going through the weapons that were meant to be used against them.

Video experts claimed the footage was authentic and matches media reports, including that of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The cache of weapons were airdropped to resupply the Kurds fighting the ISIS in the Syrian town of Kobani near the Turkish border. The extremist group has been advancing toward the town for a month as about 200,000 people have crossed the border to Turkey to escape the fighting. As Kurdish troops fight ISIS on the ground, U.S.-led coalition forces also target the militants from the air.

On Oct 21, ISIS supporters posted "thank you" messages on social media for airdropping weapons to ISIS. The seized cache of weapons was viewed as an "embarrassment" more than a loss to the U.S.-led coalition as ISIS already has U.S. weaponry in their possession that they had taken from Iraqi soldiers in June.

In a report by Fox News, U.S. military officials said they were investigating the claims that ISIS had come across a cache of weapons meant to be in the hands of Kurdish troops. Col. Steve Warren, a spokesman for the Pentagon, said one of the bundles containing weapons had "drifted off course" but airstrike teams had destroyed it. Rear Adm. John Kirby also from the Pentagon is aware of the conflicting accounts and said "we just don't know."

Meanwhile, the Yazidis in Iraq are still facing an "attempted genocide", according to a United Nations Human Rights official. Reports said there was strong evidence that ISIS will try to massacre the Yazidis. Assistant Secretary General Ivan Simonovic told reporters that the crimes committed by ISIS in the past four months may be declared crimes against humanity. In the case of the Yazidis, the earlier mass killings could be qualified as attempted genocide because the militants insisted on annihilating them if they will not convert to Islam.

ISIS militants had returned to Sinjar to attack the Yazidis where the minority group had lived since the earlier attacks. The extremist group called the Yazidis as devil-worshippers and persecuted them while forcing the women to become sex slaves.

(Source: Youtube/A3maqNews)