WASHINGTON — A video purporting to show U.S.-trained fighters captured in Syria could not be independently verified, but there’s no doubt the Pentagon’s first attempt to insert fighters into Syria met with what one official called “abject failure.”
Nearly half the force was either killed, captured or missing and they never even came in contact with ISIS.
Officially called the New Syrian Force (NSF), the first contingent of 54 fighters was trained by the U.S. military at a base in Turkey and sent across the border into Northern Syria. But instead of fighting ISIS, they unexpectedly came under attack by al Nusra — a different radical Islamic group.
Pentagon’s early training of Syrian rebels seen as “failure” – CBS News.
But I’m sure the anti-Iran terrorists Obama supports won’t be any problem.
