U.S. President Barack Obama will overhaul Washington’s approach to supporting Syrian rebel forces following this year’s deeply troubled launch of a USA military training program, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Friday.
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The commander, Hassan Haj Ali, who leads a battalion called Suquor Jabal al-Zawiya, has received USA military aid in the past, he said.
“Right now, I think given the complexities of the situation, we’re going to take sort of an operational pause” in the train and equip program, Wormuth said. “So we have devised a number of different approaches”, he added. A co-founder of the first Los Angeles Tea Party, Kruiser often speaks to grassroots groups around America and has had the great honor of traveling around the world entertaining us troops.
Pentagon officials were expected to officially announce the end of the programme late yesterday.
He says the work the USA has done with the Kurds is a good example of an effective approach with a capable, motivated ground combat force.
The Pentagon had already suspended the movement of recruits out of Syria to the USA training centers in the region, acknowledging the program had problems.
The Obama administration has ended the $500 million program that was put in place to help train and arm the “so-called moderate” Syrian rebels.
Seeking to underline the dangers of the Russian operation, U.S. officials said four Russian cruise missiles fired from a warship in the Caspian Sea had crashed in Iran which drew a swift denial from Russia that the rockets hit their targets.
The Pentagon will revise its struggling training program for moderate Syrian rebels, ending the training of large groups, a Defense Department official said. Over 200 rebels were trained under this programme.
A few lawmakers, such as U.S. Sen.
A US official told CNN that the program is being suspended as the administration looks for other ways to support moderate opposition in Syria.
The United States is suspending a faltering program to train Syrian rebels, instead focusing on sending weapons and equipment to fighters battling Islamic State forces in the country.
“We need to dedicate more resources to improve [intelligence] so that we can protect our citizens against terrorists looking to exploit our hospitality”, Miller said in a statement.
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The White House believes that providing weapons and equipment packages to a select rebel group of vetted leaders and their units would be more efficient for the anti-Daesh campaign, according to the official.
