KINDA-SORTA: Friends of Syria pledge to arm rebels - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

   

Western and Arab countries have agreed to give urgent military support to Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad, and to channel that aid through a Western-backed rebel military command.

In a statement following talks in Qatar on Saturday, ministers from the 11 main countries of the Friends of Syria group agreed "to provide urgently all the necessary materiel and equipment to the opposition on the ground".  

Their final statement also condemned "the intervention of Hezbollah militias and fighters from Iran and Iraq", demanding that they withdraw immediately from Syria. The ministers said the growing sectarian nature of the conflict and the foreign interventions "threaten the unity of Syria [and] broaden the conflict" across the region. 

They also expressed strong concern at the increasing presence of "terrorist elements" and growing radicalisation in Syria................

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