DAMASCUS: United States (US) forces airdropped small arms ammunition and other supplies to Syrian Arab rebels, barely two weeks after Russia raised the stakes in the long-running civil war by intervening on the side of President Bashar al-Assad. One military official said the drop, by Air Force C-17 cargo planes in northern Syria on Sunday, was part of a revamped US strategy announced last week to help rebels in Syria battling self-styled Islamic State (IS) militants. Last week, Washington shelved a program to train and equip "moderate" rebels opposed to Assad who would join the fight against IS. The only group on the ground to have success against IS while cooperating with the...
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