Free Syrian Army fighters (Reuters/Muzaffar Salman)
US, UK And France Training Syrian Rebels In Jordan - Reports -- RT
Foreign instructors are training Syrian rebels in modern warfare in Jordan, suggest media reports from Europe. Sources claim the trainees will be the security force if Assad goes, while the combat skills they are being taught distort the picture.
In the past three months some 200 men have already received training in two camps in the east and the south of Jordan, Der Spiegel reports. The military training focuses on the use of anti-tank weaponry, the news magazine reported, citing what it said were participants and organizers. It adds that there are plans to provide training for a total of 1,200 fighters from the Free Syrian Army – the opposition force battling the regime of President Bashar Assad.
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Update: Americans are training Syria rebels in Jordan: Spiegel -- Reuters
My Comment: I guess someone has to train them for all the weapons that they are receiving. There is not much reporting on this story .... it is after-all a major escalation of Western involvement in Syria's civil war.
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