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A 2014 FRONTLINE documentary followed Syrian rebel fighters who said they were being secretly armed and trained by the United States. (Aired 2014) Some three years after the beginning of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the regime’s bloody crackdown, journalist Muhammad Ali reported from Syria about a covert U.S. program to help moderate rebels fighting against both Assad and Islamist radicals aligned with Al Qaeda. The reporter on “Syria: Arming the Rebels” was Muhammad Ali. The producer was Jamie Doran. The senior producer was Frank Koughan. The deputy executive producer of FRONTLINE was Raney Aronson-Rath. The executive producer of FRONTLINE was David Fanning. Explore additional reporting on "Syria: Arming the Rebels" on our website: FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund, with major support from

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Inside a Covert U.S. Program to Arm & Train Moderate Syrian Rebels (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
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20 minutes
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English

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