A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian Kurds and Arab rebel groups, backed by U.S. coalition planes, said it captured a Syrian dam on Saturday from Islamic State, cutting a main supply route of the militants across the Euphrates.
The army seized the town of Otaiba, near the Damascus International Airport, in Ghouta last week, cutting a weapons supply route into the eastern fringes of Damascus that rebels had used for eight months.
The extremist group earlier in June suffered a substantial battlefield setback when Kurdish-led fighters seized another Syrian town on the Turkish border, Tal Abyad, cutting a major supply route to Islamic State's de facto capital, Raqqa.
Fearing a breakthrough, Hoge warned out the 27th Brigade, as the corps reserve, to establish defensive positions north of Kapyong on the afternoon of 23 April as a precaution in the event the South Koreans were unable to hold, tasking them with blocking the two approaches to the village and to prevent the Chinese from cutting Route 17, a key route south to Seoul and an important main supply route.
Now they see cutting costs as a route to restoring their returns.
Russian jets allowed Syrian government troops to break out of a stalemate in Aleppo, cutting supply routes into a city that has been a rebel stronghold for years.
But what the data doesn't show--and this can only be gleaned if one were to sit and watch All-22 tape of every pass attempted--is how many of his misfired passes were a result of a receiver running the wrong route or cutting the route short.
But without the computers and cameras there would not have been an expedition, and without the expedition there would have been no new cutting edge route on the tower.
Rebels seized Maarat al-Numan from President Bashar al-Assad's troops last week, cutting the route from the capital Damascus to Aleppo, Syria's biggest city.
