The Syrian Train and Equip Program is a United States-led military operation launched in 2014 that identified and trained the Kurdish YPG, Revolutionary Commando Army, and select other opposition groups inside Syria as well as in Turkey and other US-allied states who would then return to Syria to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The program reportedly cost the US $500 million.[1] It was a covert program, run by U.S. special operations forces, separate from Timber Sycamore, the parallel covert program run by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[2] As of July 2015, only a group of 54 trained and equipped fighters (Division 30) had been reported to have been deployed, which was quickly routed by al-Nusra,[3] and a further 75 were reported in September 2015.[4]
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