U.S. step up training terrorist groups

The United States have stepped up training of Syrian opposition terrorists that may be used to establish a buffer zone along Syria’s southern border, according to U.S. and Jordanian officials.

Training begun last year has been expanded .

Jordanian security officials said a previous timetable to complete training of about 3,000 Free Syrian Army officers by the end of June has been moved up to the end of this .

Two years after the start of the crisis in Syria, Western and Middle East governments are struggling to devise an effective strategy they can agree on, even as the war appears to be spinning beyond their ability to influence it, short of the direct intervention they have refused to contemplate.

The Obama administration and regional governments fear the fighting may soon spill over into other countries.

 The Obama administration, which sent a force of about 150 U.S. military personnel to Jordan last year, has repeatedly refused to comment on reports that the force is training terrorists to send them to Syria.

M.D