Not straight from the horses mouth, the United States is still waiting to announce that it has been arming the secular branch of Syria's rebel movement. This comes after the US had been giving humanitarian aid to opponents of Bashar al-Assad's regime. Still, it is apparent that the US is training rebels in Jordan:
Let me be very clear. The United States military is not conducting training of the Syrian opposition," Little said. "We are working closely with our Jordanian partners on training. But no element of the United States military is involved in training Syrian opposition groups."
CBS News' Cami McCormick reports that Little would not say what type of training is being conducted with the Jordanian military but he said the U.S. has been involved in joint planning with the Jordanians on a range of Syria contingencies "but that is different from the U.S. military training the Syrian opposition."
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