
WASHINGTON– The U.S. military said on Friday it had started training “dozens” of Syrian opposition fighters as part of a revamped program that aims to avoid mistakes that doomed its first training effort in Turkey last year.
U.S. Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Baghdad-based spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition battling ISIS, told Pentagon reporters that no Syrian fighters had graduated yet from the new programme.
Source: Reuters, April 1