The Syrian military detained three militants near the town of Tadmor in a suburb of Palmyra. They admitted that they were trained by American instructors.
Detained fighters were supposed to be doing reconnaissance operations.
“We were taught to handle all kinds of weapons by American instructors. All weapons were American-made. I saw U.S. instructors, they come to the training, but the Syrians do the training themselves”, – said one detainee.
They said they were training them with U.S. weapons, but they were sent with Russian weapons.