In new push, US military trains dozens of Syrian fighters
WASHINGTON - The US military said on Friday it had started training "dozens" of Syrian opposition fighters to battle the Islamic State as part of a revamped program that aims to avoid mistakes that doomed its first training effort in Turkey last year.
US Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Baghdad-based spokesman for the US-led coalition battling Islamic State, told Pentagon reporters that no Syrian fighters had graduated yet from the new program.
