U.S. suspending program to train and equip Syrian rebels, The U.S. is traveling to append its aged Syrian insubordinate training program, U.S. admiral said Friday in a move they characterized as a "pause."
"We're traveling to yield an operational pause," Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Christine Wormuth said on a appointment alarm with reporters Friday.
"It's not awkward the program," added Brett McGurk, the agent appropriate agent for the anti-ISIS effort. "It's adapting it."
Earlier Friday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said during a account appointment in London that the U.S. "remains committed" to training armament in Syria adjoin ISIS, but is searching for means to "improve" the program.
The New York Times aboriginal appear the U.S. move.
The new action will about-face against bartering aggressive aid to action leaders angry ISIS instead of training and accouterment rebels.
The administration's accomplishment to enhance the abstinent Syrian action through training and accessories came beneath abundant analysis in contempo weeks afterwards the White House accustomed the affairs had alone succeeded in admission a scattering of recruits, admitting spending about $500 actor on the endeavor.
Administration admiral fatigued that Syrian insubordinate commanders would abide to accept aggressive equipment.
"We're traveling to be accouterment added basal kinds of accessories to these groups," Wormuth said. "That's how we will abate the risk."
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Carter said the move was a adventitious to amend how to accomplish the program's goals.
"I was not annoyed with the aboriginal efforts in that regard, and so we are searching at altered means to accomplish the aforementioned cardinal objectives, which is the appropriate one, which is to accredit able motivated armament on the arena to balance area from ISIL and accost Syrian area from abandonment so we accept devised a amount of altered approaches to that traveling forward," Carter said, application a altered name for ISIS.
A U.S. official told CNN that the affairs is getting abeyant as the administering looks for added means to abutment the abstinent action in Syria. But U.S. abetment for the rebels is not ending.
Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook appear a account Friday adage that Carter is now administering the Pentagon to "provide accessories bales and weapons to a baddest accumulation of vetted leaders and their units so that over time they can accomplish a concerted advance into area still controlled by ISIL."
"We will adviser the advance these groups accomplish and accommodate them with air abutment as they yield the action to ISIL," he said.
Cook said "refinements and adjustments" will abide to action with time, acknowledging that the ISIS action will be "a continued and backbreaking process."
"We're traveling to yield an operational pause," Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Christine Wormuth said on a appointment alarm with reporters Friday.
"It's not awkward the program," added Brett McGurk, the agent appropriate agent for the anti-ISIS effort. "It's adapting it."
Earlier Friday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said during a account appointment in London that the U.S. "remains committed" to training armament in Syria adjoin ISIS, but is searching for means to "improve" the program.
The New York Times aboriginal appear the U.S. move.
The new action will about-face against bartering aggressive aid to action leaders angry ISIS instead of training and accouterment rebels.
The administration's accomplishment to enhance the abstinent Syrian action through training and accessories came beneath abundant analysis in contempo weeks afterwards the White House accustomed the affairs had alone succeeded in admission a scattering of recruits, admitting spending about $500 actor on the endeavor.
Administration admiral fatigued that Syrian insubordinate commanders would abide to accept aggressive equipment.
"We're traveling to be accouterment added basal kinds of accessories to these groups," Wormuth said. "That's how we will abate the risk."
READ: John Kerry raises Syria no-fly area admitting Obama's skepticism
Carter said the move was a adventitious to amend how to accomplish the program's goals.
"I was not annoyed with the aboriginal efforts in that regard, and so we are searching at altered means to accomplish the aforementioned cardinal objectives, which is the appropriate one, which is to accredit able motivated armament on the arena to balance area from ISIL and accost Syrian area from abandonment so we accept devised a amount of altered approaches to that traveling forward," Carter said, application a altered name for ISIS.
A U.S. official told CNN that the affairs is getting abeyant as the administering looks for added means to abutment the abstinent action in Syria. But U.S. abetment for the rebels is not ending.
Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook appear a account Friday adage that Carter is now administering the Pentagon to "provide accessories bales and weapons to a baddest accumulation of vetted leaders and their units so that over time they can accomplish a concerted advance into area still controlled by ISIL."
"We will adviser the advance these groups accomplish and accommodate them with air abutment as they yield the action to ISIL," he said.
Cook said "refinements and adjustments" will abide to action with time, acknowledging that the ISIS action will be "a continued and backbreaking process."
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