www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
World / US and Canada

US House okay's Obama's plan to train Syrian rebels

(Xinhua) Updated: 2014-09-18 16:32

US House okay's Obama's plan to train Syrian rebels 
First US airstrikes in expanded Iraq fight?
US House okay's Obama's plan to train Syrian rebels 
US expands campaign against IS?
WASHINGTON -- The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved President Barack Obama's plan to train and equip Syrian rebels as part of efforts to fight the Islamic State militant group.

The chamber voted 273-156 to give the president the authority to offer more support for the vetted rebels fighting both the Syrian government and the group.

The measure came as an amendment to a bill that will fund the federal government through mid-December. The Senate is expected to consider it later this week.

Obama issued a statement welcoming the move, saying the training program will be implemented outside of Syria in partnership with regional countries. "There will be no US military personnel in Syria as part of this program," he said.

He also urged the Senate to pass the bill "without delay."

The measure enables the Pentagon to vet, train and arm what Washington calls "moderate" Syrian rebels, who will then fight on the ground while US warplanes carry out airstrikes on the Islamic State targets inside Syria, part of a strategy unveiled by Obama on Sept. 10 for degrading and ultimately destroying the radical group running amok both in Syria and Iraq.

The US military has launched air raids on the group's targets in Iraq since Aug. 8, and stepped up the operation over the weekend by hitting targets near Baghdad, Iraq's capital.

Rep. Jackie Speier, a Democrat, voted against Obama's training plan. "We should have our eyes open wide enough to know we are being asked to do something more today than train three to five thousand fighters in the Free Syrian Army," she said. "We are not facing a limited engagement, but a new war."

Polls show that the Americans support the airstrikes on the Islamic State both in Iraq and Syria, but they are wary of an open- ended campaign in the region, as Obama said the battle against the group could go beyond his presidency that ends in January 2017.

Secretary of State John Kerry, who just returned form the Middle East and Paris on a trip focusing on building a coalition against the Islamic State, reiterated Wednesday that no American combat troops will join the fighting in the Middle East.

"US ground troops will not be sent into combat in this conflict," he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a hearing. "Instead, they will support Iraq forces on the ground as they fight for their country."

Obama also reaffirmed his commitment earlier in the day, a day after the top American military officer made remarks to the contrary.

"I will not commit you, and the rest of our Armed Forces, to fighting another ground war in Iraq," Obama said at the US Central Command in Tampa, Florida.

Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate hearing on Tuesday that the president would consider sending US military advisers deployed in Iraq into combat "on a case-by-case basis."

 

 

 

Trudeau visits Sina Weibo
May gets little gasp as EU extends deadline for sufficient progress in Brexit talks
Ethiopian FM urges strengthened Ethiopia-China ties
Yemen's ex-president Saleh, relatives killed by Houthis
Most Popular
Hot Topics

...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 国产男女乱淫真视频全程播放 | 色婷婷91 | 一级a毛片免费观看 | 欧美日韩中文字幕在线观看 | 久久99久久99 | 国产一区二区三区免费大片天美 | 免费a网 | 九九热视频精品在线观看 | 亚洲天堂中文网 | 亚洲欧美综合一区二区三区四区 | 千涩成人网| 美女网站免费观看视频 | 精品国产成人在线 | 色综合久久久久久 | 久久99久久精品免费思思6 | 亚洲精品一区二区四季 | 成人在线不卡视频 | 在线播放高清国语自产拍免费 | 久久黄色一级视频 | 国产精品日本一区二区不卡视频 | 欧美日韩精品一区二区三区视频播放 | 欧美另类老妇 | 免费一级欧美片在线观免看 | 欧美一级特黄刺激爽大片 | 午夜欧美成人久久久久久 | 美女张开腿双腿让男人桶 | 成人亚洲欧美日韩在线 | 成人男女网18免费看 | 欧美日本一区二区三区道 | 国产成人a一区二区 | 免费国产成人高清在线观看视频 | 嫩草一区二区三区四区乱码 | 国产在线观看xxxx免费 | 国产日韩欧美网站 | 国产精品视频九九九 | 日本视频在线免费看 | 欧美成人精品大片免费流量 | 免费人成在线观看播放国产 | 国产一区二区三区亚洲欧美 | 欧美午夜成年片在线观看 | 亚洲天堂男人网 |