10月30日CNN聽力：美國宣告將增強襲擊極度恐懼構造ISIS攻勢
Hi. It's great to see you.
I'm Carl Azuz, hosting your daily ten minutes ofcurrent events.
First up this October 29th:the U.S. military may bebroadening its strategy in fighting the ISIS terroristgroup.
Listen to this statement made earlier this week byU.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter.
We won't hold back from supporting capable partners in opportunistic attacks against ISIL, orconducting such missions directly, whether by strikes from the air or direct action on theground.
Those last three words, "on the ground", are getting a lot of attention.
The U.S. has been conducting airstrikes against ISIS for months.
Last year, the Obama administration repeatedly said no U.S. boots would be on the ground,meaning Americans would not be in direct combat with the terrorists.
But afterwards, some U.S. officials suggested that might be necessary to defeat ISIS.
And now, it appears the U.S. is getting ready to put combat troops in action.
The president as commander-in-chief of the U.S. military has not made a final decision onthis.
The White House says it's one possibility being presented.
ISIS has taken over large parts of Iraq and Syria.Iraq's government says it already has enoughsoldiers on the ground and that it does not want American or another troops joining its fightagainst ISIS.But as far as Syria goes, the situation is more complex.
And it threatens to become a proxy war when external countries face off indirectly by givingmilitary assistance to different groups that are fighting.
The civil war in Syria has become incredibly complicated over the past four years and that'sbecause there are so many different groups fighting on the ground for very different reasons.
But essentially, you have four main contingents.
Firstly, you have the Syrian army, which is loyal to the regime of Bashar al Assad.
Then, you have ISIS, which is now in control of large swaths of territory in the east of thecountry.
In the northwest, you have various Islamist groups and also some moderate groups who arefighting primarily against the regime, but also against ISIS.
And here in the northeast, you have mainly Kurdish fighters with the YPG who are fightingagainst ISIS.
Now, all of these different factions have different international backers.
So, the regime is supported heavily by Russia and by Iran.
The Islamists in the northwest of the country are supported by Saudi and Qatar,
and the U.S. has also given limited support to some of the moderate groups in thenorthwest, but also to the YPG here in the northeast.
Now, recently, the Russians have dramatically increased their involvement in this conflict,launching hundreds of airstrikes on various rebel groups that are fighting against the regimeand also supplying the Syrian army with sophisticated weapons.
The U.S. has responded by dropping 50 tons of ammunition to various groups in this regionthat are fighting against ISIS and Saudi Arabia has also accelerated the flow of anti-tankmissiles that it is supplying to its Islamist allies in the northwest of the country.
All of which has really raised the specter that Syria has ultimately become a proxy war.And withall the different factions focusing now on gaining a decisive military advantage, very few arewilling to come to the negotiating table.
Two hundred forty-nine miles over our heads, astronauts on the International Space Stationrecently discovered they're not alone.
It's not aliens, though.
It's bacteria-specifically, Corynebacterium and Propionibacterium.
Scientists think it just hitched a ride on space cargo to get to the station.
Many of us have encountered both of these bacteria.
The first one causes respiratory infections.
The second one, acne. But that's on earth.
Scientists think weightlessness could cause bacteria to behave differently.
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