President Barack Obama’s administration on Friday ended a program to train up to 15,000 moderate Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State extremists before the program had really begun
The $500 million Defense Department program—announced more than a year ago—was initially sold as the best way for the United States to fight radicals on the ground, and the money was primarily meant for a group of moderate rebels known as the Free Syrian Army
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But the program was quickly shown to be better in theory than practice as many moderate Syrian rebels believed their main focus shouldn’t be ISIS but the Assad regime which has …
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