September 16, 2015
By Helene Cooper
WASHINGTON — Only four or five Syrian individuals (click here) trained by the United States military to confront the Islamic State remain in the fight, the head of the United States Central Command told a Senate panel on Wednesday, a bleak acknowledgment that the Defense Department’s $500 million program to raise an army of Syrian fighters has gone nowhere.
By Helene Cooper
WASHINGTON — Only four or five Syrian individuals (click here) trained by the United States military to confront the Islamic State remain in the fight, the head of the United States Central Command told a Senate panel on Wednesday, a bleak acknowledgment that the Defense Department’s $500 million program to raise an army of Syrian fighters has gone nowhere.
Gen.
Lloyd J. Austin III, the top American commander in the Middle East,
also told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the United States
would not reach its goal of training 5,000 Syrian fighters anytime soon....
There won't be a power sharing government if the Syrian resistance can't maintain a stable representation. In all sincerity it looks as though Assad is the only man left standing.
There won't be a power sharing government if the Syrian resistance can't maintain a stable representation. In all sincerity it looks as though Assad is the only man left standing.
