US runs training camps for Syria militants: Russian general
Tehran (KNA) - The Russian military top brass says militants, including those with the Takfiri Daesh terror group, are receiving training in US bases in Syria, adding the terrorists have been instructed to “destabilize” the Arab country.
In an interview with Russia's Komsomolskaya Pravda daily on Wednesday, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov said the US had turned its military base near the town of al-Tanf in southeastern Syria into a training camp for militants.Asked about the situation at the US-run al-Tanf base, he replied, "According to satellite and other surveillance data, terrorist squads are stationed there. They are effectively training there.
"General Gerasimov also accused the US of using a refugee camp outside the town of Shaddadah in Syria's northeastern Hasakah Province as a training center for the Daesh remnants, including those evacuated from the terror outfit's former stronghold of Raqqah.
"This is essentially ISIS (Daesh)," he said. "They change their colors, take different names - the 'New Syrian Army' and others. They are tasked with destabilizing the situation."
Source: Press TV