President Trump Cancels CIA Program Started By President Obama To Arm And Train Syria's Rebels

New York Times: Trump Ends Covert Aid to Syrian Rebels Trying to Topple Assad

President Trump has ended the clandestine American program to provide arms and supplies to Syrian rebel groups, American officials said, a recognition that the effort was failing and that the administration has given up hope of helping to topple the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

The decision came more than a month ago, the officials said, by which time the effort to deliver the arms had slowed to a trickle.

It was never publicly announced, just as the beginnings of the program four years ago were officially a secret, authorized by President Barack Obama through a “finding” that permitted the C.I.A. to conduct a deniable program. News of the troublesome program soon leaked out.

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WNU Editor: This secret CIA program was an unmitigated disaster. Radical jihadists benefited from it. The misery and the war just exploded .... resulting in the refugee disaster that we are still facing today. And in the war against ISIS .... the only group that have proven their worth are the Kurds .... and not the Syrian rebel groups who originally got these weapons and who were suppose to go to war against ISIS. But even with this CIA cut-off the Syrian civil war is going to continue .... there are just too many arms and too many outside governments vested in keeping the conflict alive.

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