Russia supplying the Syrian Government, while the U.S. trains the rebels.

English: SOCHI. With President of Syria Bashar al-Assad. Русский: СОЧИ, БОЧАРОВ РУЧЕЙ. С Президентом Сирии Башаром Асадом. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

U.S. officials are concerned about the increasing aid the Syrian Assad government has been receiving from Russia. According to Hindu.com,

Russia has delivered a new shipment of 290-km Yakhont missiles to the Syrian Assad Government.

In 2011, Russia had supplied the government 2 Yakhont missiles, and at the time had promised more. Along with the missiles, the Russian government also plans to supply the Assad Regime with S-300 advanced air defense systems. Russia has also deployed up to a dozen ships to its naval base in Syria, over the last few months. The fact that the Russians have decided to continue to supply the President Bashar al-Assad's regime, will mean that Russian firepower will be meeting U.S. firepower in the struggle for Syrian control. According to the New York Times,

The United States has also been training a select cadre of Syrian rebels in Jordan under  a covert program run by the C.I.A.”

The U.S. has admitted to sending 200 troops to Jordan, and is willing to send up to 20,000. Meanwhile, according to Reuters, President Barack Obama announced Friday that he would be cutting back on funding requests for the war in Afghanistan. This announcement comes as a surprise to military personal, who have reported an increase in violence in Afghanistan targeting westerners in the past few weeks. NATO forces were targeted last May 16 in a suicide blast that killed 2 U.S. troops, and on May 5, 2013, 8 soldiers from an American-led military coalition were killed by roadside bombs and firearms in Kabul, Afghanistan.
The Syrian conflict is of greater concern to the Israeli government, who has not admitted to, but is suspected of, being behind the bombing of the Syrian Jamraya Research Center on May 5, 2013, in an effort to stop Hezbollah from getting advanced weapons. According to CNN, this attack prompted the Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby, to ask the United Nations Security Council to 'move immediately in order to stop and prevent Israeli attacks on Syria.'

The New York Times reports that it is estimated that close to 1.5 million people have fled the conflict, and most have fled to Jordan and Lebanon. They also report that Syria's national production has dropped by 40% and the number of people living below the poverty line has risen from two million to five million in just two years"

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