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The Pentagon is spending $2 billion running Soviet-era guns to Syrian rebels
Bassam Khabieh/Reuters The U.S. Department of Defense is reportedly still funneling billions of dollars' worth of Soviet-era weaponry to anti-Islamic State groups in Syria, with questionable oversight.
In a joint report published Tuesday, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network allege that the Pentagon has given up to $2.2 billion worth of weapons to groups like the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG.
The program sidesteps long-established checks on international weapons trafficking, the...
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