09.10.2015 - 17:33 [ Atlantic ]

The U.S. Gives Up on Building New Syrian Rebel Groups

An official told the Times that

there would no longer be any more recruiting of so-called moderate Syrian rebels to go through training programs in Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates. Instead, a much smaller training center would be set up in Turkey, where a small group of “enablers”—mostly leaders of opposition groups—would be taught operational maneuvers like how to call in airstrikes.
In London, Carter held up cooperation with Kurds as a model for going forward.