Pentagon-backed Syrians are fighting militias armed by the CIA

If American foreign policy ever seems confusing, wasteful, and counter-intuitive — it’s because it is, and there’s no better example than the U.S. involvement in Syria.

A Pentagon-supported rebel militia named The Syrian Democratic Forces have begun battling a CIA-armed group called Fursan al Haq, or Knights of Righteousness, in northern Syria, reported The Los Angeles Times.

In other words, your tax dollars are being spent to arm two different group of people who are now fighting each other.

The conflict began when Fursan al Haq was run out of a suburb of Aleppo and decided to retaliate.

“Any faction that attacks us, regardless from where it gets its support, we will fight it,” Fares Bayoush, a leader of Fursan al Haq, said in an interview with The LA Times.