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By late 2013, the C.I.A. was working directly with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other nations to arm and train small groups of rebels and send them across the border into Syria. The specific motives behind the November shooting at the Amman police training facility remain uncertain, and it is unclear when the F.B.I. will officially conclude its investigation.

In October 2014, Vice-president Joe Biden said “our biggest problem is our allies” who are engaged in a proxy Sunni-Shiite war against Syrian President Bashar Assad. He specifically named Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. “What did they do? They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad – except that the people who were being supplied were [Jabhat] al-Nusra and al-Qaida and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world,” he said.

According to, Canter For American Progress, UAE as well as other countries fund Syrian opposition groups (opposition groups at the time included moderate Jihadi Groups which later on committed heinous war crimes. The centre states about funding, “The Syrian Opposition Coalition receives political and financial support from Western and Arab states alike. Its primary backers are the United States… and the United Arab Emirates.