CIA’s Syrian arms program: When weapons empowered jihadist groups

The untold story of Operation Timber Sycamore: how a billion-dollar CIA program meant to arm "moderate rebels" in Syria ended up strengthening the same jihadist groups and Al-Qaeda offshoots that America claimed to oppose.

Through declassified documents and expert analysis from the US military's own Modern War Institute, we uncover how weapons meant for allies found their way to extremist factions, leading a former US Ambassador to later call them America's "assets".