#Syrian_Truth #Syria #Iraq #US #ISIL #rebels # New U.S. help arrives for Syrian rebels as government, extremists gain A U.S.-backed effort to arm the moderate Syrian opposition is finally ramping up along the Turkey-Syria border, but it may come too late to save the rebels from defeats on two fronts, by President Bashar al-Assad’s government and by the extremists seeking to carve out an Islamic state. Spurred by concerns that the al-Qaeda-inspired radicals will continue their relentless march across Iraq and Syria, the United States and its allies have begun accelerating the supply of arms and ammunition to a small number of vetted rebel groups in northern Syria, according to diplomats and rebels who have been receiving the deliveries washingtonpost/world/new-us-help-arrives-for-syrian-rebels-as-government-extremists-gain/2014/07/27/d4805a82-43b3-4583-85b5-f51efd6940a4_story.html?wpmk=MK0000203
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:25:12 +0000
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