non-lethal US aid

""Weeks before the Obama administration and other Western nations recognized a new Syrian opposition coalition as "the legitimate representative" of the Syrian people, Syrian rebels were receiving training in the use of light and heavy weapons with the backing of the Jordanian, British and U.S. governments, participants in the training have told McClatchy." "By November, another rebel said, the training had expanded to anti-tank weapons and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles.""