Saturday, May 21, 2016

US Top Mideast Gen. Makes Secret Visit to Syria; Meets US Mil. Advisers,Syrian Democratic Forces

The top U.S. commander for the Middle East secretly visited Syria today (May 21, 2016), according to the BBC website.

Gen. Joseph Votel -- head of the U.S. Central Command -- spent about 11 hours in northern Syria.

He met with U.S. military advisers and the leaders of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), made up of Kurdish and Arab rebel forces.

Speaking after his visit, Gen. Votel said training local forces to fight the Islamic State (IS) radical group was the right approach. The U.S. has some 200 military advisers in Syria, where 270,000 people have been killed in a civil war that has been going on for over five years.

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