The US is training “dozens” of Syrian rebels to fight ISIS in Syria, despite the failure of the Pentagons previous multi million dollar effort. Washington previously struggled to define which fighters ‘deserved’ to get US funds and equipment, with most of the equipment and recruits somehow getting lost or ending up on the side of terrorists. RT reports: “Dozens of people are now being trained,” US Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Baghdad-based spokesman for the US-led coalition, confirmed to reporters. “It’s still relatively small as we see if this works,” he said, while refusing to comment on the scale of the program. Warren provided neither a definite figure for the number of individuals in training nor their location. Citing an unnamed source, Reuters reported that it had been taking place in Turkey, just as with America’s previous attempt to bolster the so-called moderate Syrian opposition . “A training and equipping program that we are now doing that is based on the lessons that we learned from our ill-fated train and equip program of 2015,” Warren said. The US previously failed in its an attempt to train and equip rebels, having to stop the program following a scandal, when it was [...]