Speaking at a discussion forum in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in Russia, Putin said that Islamic State militants (ISIS) seized roughly 700 people after an attack on a Syrian refugee camp and had threatened to execute hostages.

Also, the Moscow-based, state-owned Tass news agency reported that ISIS militants had stormed a Syrian refugee camp in Deir Ezzor, Syria, an area controlled by U.S.-backed forces. And alleged that the group took prisoner around 130 families and moved them to an unknown location south of the Euphrates River.

Responding to an inquiry from Newsweek, the Pentagon confirmed the attack on the refugee camp happened but said they had no information to support Putin’s assertions.

“We have no information supporting the large number of hostages alleged by President Putin and we are skeptical of its accuracy,” said U.S. Navy Commander Sean Robertson, a Pentagon spokesman. “We are also unaware of any U.S. nationals located in that camp.”

“We reject Russian assertions that the U.S. and Coalition have failed to address the threat posed by ISIS,” Robertson added.

Deir Ezzor is located on the banks of the Euphrates River and is the largest city in eastern Syria with a population of more than 200,000 people. The Syrian Democratic Forces estimate that about 3,000 ISIS fighters remain in the region.

But it has been reported that there has been heavy fighting for Hajin, where the refugee camp is located, which was having a ‘devastating’ effect on the civilian population seeking shelter at the camp, said the New York Daily News.

Although the Pentagon has pushed back at the assertions of Putin, it is still confirmed that there was heavy fighting in the area of the refugee camp between U.S. backed forces and ISIS, and that there was an attack on the refugee camp by ISIS.

Additionally, the Pentagon did not deny that refugees had been taken as hostages by ISIS but only said they had no information supporting the number of hostages taken that Putin asserted. And said they were only unaware of any U.S. nationals located at that refugee camp.

Overall, the Pentagon response was not a resounding repudiation of Putin’s assertions, and there may be more to possibly develop going forward from this story. But we also must beware of efforts by the Russians to place news stories in western media that serve as propaganda that may not be true.

However, the prophecies of the Last Days (Matthew 24, Revelation 9) say that there will be turmoil and conflict in this area of the Euphrates River of Syria that pulls in the nations of the world with the conflict progressively morphing until it becomes a global Biblical world war with the most horrific of consequences such as the world has never known.

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