The Pentagon sent military instructors to train the Syrian opposition – Kommersant

                             
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The Department of Defense is preparing to start a program to train soldiers of the Syrian opposition. About 400 US military trainers have gone to Turkey and Jordan for training Syrian rebels. According to the US military, the main purpose of training is to prepare the Syrian soldiers to fight members of the terrorist organization “Islamic State”. At the same time, as noted by the sources in the Pentagon, the fight against Syrian President Bashar Assad is not the main task of training the rebels.

According to CNN, the US military instructors are going to start training Syrian opposition this week. It is noted that passed the initial selection of about 400 people from three thousand. Opposition to join the training program.