Operation Timber Sycamore was perhaps the most expensive covert operation since the Cold War ended. From 2013 to 2017, the CIA spent over $1 billion trying to strengthen "moderate rebels" against both ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s deputy foreign minister criticized a new U.S. program to train moderate rebel fighters in Jordan, saying it will only fuel terrorism and further complicate efforts to ...

House GOP moderates on Wednesday privately huddled with a bipartisan group of senators to begin plotting the next steps on ...

Kerry believes Syrian rebels will take on ISIS first, then resume fighting Assad Secretary of State John Kerry appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept ...

JEDDAH Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - As President Barack Obama knits together an international coalition to take its campaign against Islamic State from Iraq into Syria, fighters like Ammar al-Wawi could ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. hopes to boost a faltering program for training moderate Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State, but it will not compromise on the standards it has used to weed out ...

The moderate rebel command at the center of U.S. policy in Syria is becoming increasingly marginalized as dozens of militias peel away to form rival, Islamist alliances in a move that could leave the ...

Like many Syrian exiles, Murhaf Jouejati, a professor at National Defense University, is frustrated by U.S. policy toward Syria. He says there's been only a trickle of U.S. aid to the secular, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Moderate Syrian rebels are engaged in their fiercest fighting to date with al Qaeda-affiliated fighters on Syria's northern and eastern borders, a senior U.S. State Department ...

President Barack Obama wants to increase the U.S.'s involvement in the Syrian conflict by asking Congress to approve $500 million in funding to train and arm "moderate" Syrian rebel forces. The ...

Less than 100 rebel fighters are currently being trained by the US military to combat Isis in Syria, the Pentagon has revealed. The lowly numbers are a result of the stringent vetting procedures in ...