Militant captured in Syria says trained by American instructors to use US arms

A member of a Takfiri militant group, who was recently detained by Syrian  government forces, has admitted receiving training on how to use US-made weapons under the supervision of American instructors.

Russia’s Sputnik news agency released Tuesday the confessions of three members of the so-called Mahavir as-Saura extremist group, who were recently detained by Syrian army soldiers after getting trapped in a minefield near the ancient central city of Palmyra.

One of the militants, identified as Abdullah al-Mishuat, revealed that he and his fellows had learned how to handle different types of armaments in training sessions supervised by US instructors.

Mishuat said “we were taught to handle all types of weapons by American instructors. All of t he weapons were US-made.”