MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Last summer, US President Barack Obama announced plans to train and equip more than 5,000 moderate Syrian rebels to take on the ISIL, but has only prepared some 60 fighters so far.
"The project is very slow … If it takes this long to train 60, it will take decades to get everyone ready,” Capt. Ammar Wawi told the BBC on Wednesday.
He added that Washington and the international coalition failed to protect Division 30 — a group of rebels trained by US — when the extremists attacked them last week.
"In reality, we have got no international guarantees to protect our fighters or to protect the 30th Division," Ammar Wawi said.
In the past week, the Nusra Front has killed at least five Division 30 fighters, wounded and captured over a dozen, according to media reports. On Friday, it issued a statement saying the fighters acted as US agents by helping to carry out airstrikes on jihadist and Islamist groups.
A US-led international coalition has been conducting airstrikes against the extremist groups' positions in Syria since September 2014.
