U.S. Has Cut Funding To Syria's 'Moderate' Rebel Movement

Syrian rebel fighters. (Reuters/Hosam Katan)

Jamie Dettmer and Tim Mak, Daily Beast: Exclusive: Obama Cuts Off Syrian Rebels’ Cash

Even the favored secular militias groomed to fight ISIS have seen their funding cut in half.

Update #1: Covert CIA Mission to Arm Syrian Rebels Goes Awry -- WSJ
Update #2: U.S. foreign policy in Syria is failure -- Doyle McManus, Omaha.com/L.A. Times

WNU Editor: With this cut in funding .... one has to then wonder what will these U.S. soldiers/trainers then do .... US troops heading to Middle East to train Syria rebels (Al Jazeera). Hmmm ... it makes you wonder if the U.S. is about to agree with the Assad regime .... Assad: US plans to train Syria rebels 'illusory' (Daily Star/AFP).