Only ‘four or five’ U.S.-trained fighters in Syria

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Washingrton Times:

The chief of the U.S. military campaign against the Islamic State said there are just “four or five” U.S.-trained rebel fighters on the ground in Syria right now — far less than the goal of 3,000 President Obama’s strategy had called for in the first year.

 

“The new Syrian force program has gotten off to a slow start,” Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III told the Senate Armed Services Committee, though he said the fighters were always meant to be a “complement” to the airstrike campaign the U.S. is leading with an international coalition, and to other indigenous forces already fighting.