Senate votes to support rebel aid

Friday, September 19, 2014

WASHINGTON -- In the heat of an election campaign, Congress cleared the way for the U.S. military to train and equip Syrian rebels for a war against Islamic state militants Thursday, a reluctant ratification of a new strategy President Barack Obama outlined scarcely a week ago.

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