Showing posts with label Training Syrian Opposition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Training Syrian Opposition. Show all posts

Monday, October 6, 2014

Training Syrian Opposition in Georgia Inefficient Against IS





The possible creation of a training camp for Syrian opposition fighters in the former Soviet republic of Georgia is inefficient for the fight against the Islamic State (IS), Lionel Beehner, Ph.D. candidate in political science at Yale University, has told RIA Novosti.


“It is hard to imagine the Georgians training thousands of Syrian fighters. Most of the training and cooperation will be done clandestinely, given the regional sensitivities and the real threat of ISIS [IS] seeping into the Caucasus … if they are pushed out of northern Syria and Iraq,” Beehner said on Monday.
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