An al-Qaeda aligned jihadist group in Syria has shown off American anti-tank weapons captured when it defeated western-backed rebels.
Nusra Front fighters posed with the American-made BGM-71 TOW wire-guided missiles in photographs on the group’s official Twitter account. The missile is one of the most feared weapons on the Syrian battlefield, capable of destroying tanks at long range.
The group boasted of its missile haul after it overran a Syrian army base that had been held since November by the US-backed rebel group Harakat Hazm.
Photographs of the inside of the base about 15 miles west of Aleppo, in northern Syria, showed a warehouse stacked with US-supplied anti-tank munitions and mortar shells, as well as food supplies bearing the US flag. “Thanks be to God,