Washington-SANA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump has agreed to give the so-called "White Helmets" terrorist group $ 4.5 million, the White House said in a fresh demonstration of Washington's association with terrorist organizations it uses as a tool to carry out its plans.
"Trump urges allies of the United States to support the White Helmets," White House spokeswoman Stephanie Gresham said Tuesday, adding that the funding approved was part of continued US support for the group.
The State Department announced last year that Trump has allocated about $ 6.6 million to finance the group "White Helmets" associated with terrorist organizations.
The White Helmets group was founded in Turkey in 2013 with clear British-American and Western funding. In the ranks of terrorist organizations.
It also uncovered several documents found by the Syrian Arab Army in the areas that freed it from terrorism, where it proved the organic link between the "White Helmets" and terrorist organizations and support them, especially "Jabhat al-Nusra" through the preparation and promotion of the use of chemical weapons against civilians as happened in Eastern Ghouta in Damascus countryside several times and in areas in Aleppo, accusing the Syrian Arab Army of this.