Trump ends CIA arms support for anti-Assad Syria rebels: U.S. officials

[thephilosopher6]

yahoo.com/news/trump-ends-cia-arms-support-anti-assad-syria-214834691.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration has decided to halt the CIA’s covert program to equip and train certain rebel groups fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, two U.S. officials said, a move sought by Assad ally Russia.

The U.S. decision, said one of the officials, is part of an effort by the administration to improve relations with Russia, which along with Iranian-supported groups has largely succeeded in preserving Assad’s government in the six-year-civil war.

edit: I accidentally put this in the Catholic News Section, please move it to World News.

 

[PluniaZ]

Thanks be to God. The United States needs to pull out of the Middle East completely. We’ve been invading and bombing the region for decades, and it’s only been making things worse.

 

[thephilosopher6]

Thanks be to God. The United States needs to pull out of the Middle East completely. We’ve been invading and bombing the region for decades, and it’s only been making things worse.

Yes, and we need to improve our relations with Russia. Thank God Hillary is not president, if she were, we’d be in world war 3 right now!