Foreign Weapons Reach Syrian Moderate Rebels, Kerry Says
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The U.S. has gained greater confidence in recent months that foreign supplies of weapons for Syrian rebels are reaching moderate factions, Secretary of State John Kerry said.
Throughout the two-year Syrian uprising, President Barack Obama’s administration has said that one reason for not sending U.S. arms was they might end up strengthening radical Islamist factions that have taken a lead in some of the fighting. The U.S. has said it isn’t sending weapons, though it acknowledges that other nations are doing so.