The United States and Turkey have signed an agreement to train and arm Syrian rebels fighting the Islamic State group, two senior defense officials confirmed to Fox News.

The two countries have been in talks about such a pact for several months. The deal was signed Thursday evening by U.S Ambassador John Bass and a senior Turkish foreign ministry official, said Joe Wierichs, the spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Ankara. He gave no further details.

The Turkish government has said the training could begin as early as next month at a base in the central Anatolian city of Kirsehir, and involve hundreds of Syrian fighters in the first year. The U.S. has said the goal is to go after the Islamic State group, but Turkish officials have suggested that the trained rebels could also target the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad.

With its 750 mile border on Syria, Turkey is a key part of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State group. But negotiations with the U.S. over what to do about the Islamic militants have been fraught with disagreement -- with Turkey insisting that the coalition needs to also target the Assad government.

Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/02/19/turkey-us-sign-deal-to-train-arm-syrian-rebels-us-embassy-says/



This is how they arm rebels that later metamorphose into terrorist, later they will start blaming others and sending their secretary of states to start addressing press conferences against various presidents here and there for the terrorists of today that where yesterdays creation by them while the shallow minded ones will start hailing them as having their interest at heart.

All Jonathanians are IGNORANCE.. And I don't blame them. They are just Like Fani Kayode..

____ "They are poor nigerians; Give them money and they will support you" --- Dat quote fit all jonathanians

They are supporting because they are gainning 1or2 things from that coward thief--

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^^^^^^ Exactly. Why can't they armed the government of Syria. The president is still there. I remember the interview the president of Syria gave on CNN when he was screaming that he is fighting a terrorist group and not an uprising. The US never cared to listen, they just wanted him out. Now the same group the empowered turned out to be inflicting pains.

Seems The US don't learn from history. The funded Alqaeda now that terrorist group seems to the stronger than many fortune 500 companies.

godson36:
All Jonathanians are IGNORANCE.. And I don't blame them. They are just Like Fani Kayode..

____ "They are poor nigerians; Give them money and they will support you" --- Dat quote fit all jonathanians

They are supporting because they are gainning 1or2 things from that coward thief--

Jonathan should kindly tell us 'how and why' 20trillion naira got missing... Meanwhile, #2trillion will provide nigeria with 24/7 electricity..

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#march4buhari

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@ the highlighted.
meanwhile there is no connection between ur comment and the issue in question.

And the soon-to-be-trained rebels would afterwards metamorphosed into another "ISIS" setting the trend for more future wars so that US Military Industrial corporations would keep smiling to the banks.