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In a video posted online by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) reportedly shows that weapons, ammo and other supplies intended for Kurdish forces have fallen into ISIS hands.

The U.S. had been dropping supplies to Kurdish forces in the Syrian town of Kobani, and the video claims the weapons and ammunition were inadvertently dropped into ISIS held territory.

A senior administration official told CBS News on Sunday that the majority – but not necessarily all – of the bundles dropped by U.S. forces appeared to ‎make it to their intended targets.

“We are still assessing the completion of the mission but every indication that we have is that the vast majority of those bundles were successfully delivered to Kurdish forces,” the official said. “We’re still working through a complete assessment right now.‎”

The Pentagon could not state with complete certainty that all airdrops reached their intended targets.

The Daily Beast reported on Monday, White House Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said the U.S. government was confident that the emergency airdropped supplies for the Kurdish forces near Kobani were falling into the right hands.

“We feel very confident that, when we air drop support as we did into Kobani… we’ve been able to hit the target in terms of reaching the people we want to reach,” Rhodes told CNN. “What I can assure people is that, when we are delivering aid now, we focus it on the people we want to receive that assistance. Those are civilians in need. Those are forces that we’re aligned with in the fight against ISIL

[the government’s preferred acronym for ISIS], and we take precautions to make sure that it’s not falling into the wrong hands.”

Rhodes remarked that the aid flowing into Kobani was more humanitarian aid not the type of weapons and equipment as the video shows.

CBS News reported Idris Nassan, a senior Kurdish official from Kobani who is now in the Turkish town of Mursitpinar, confirmed the Kurdish fighters received the airdrop and asked for more weapons.

“We are not in need of fighters. We are able to defeat the terrorists of ISIS if we have weaponry – enough weaponry and enough ammunition,” he told The Associated Press.

With all the attention on the Ebola crisis, less attention has been focused on ISIS and the situation in both Iraq and Syria, but eventually decisions have to be made.  It looks like all the decision will be deferred until after November’s midterm election.