In September, the Dutch government announced the complete cessation of assistance to opposition groups and other organizations in Syria, saying that the program “did not bring the expected results” amid the government troops' successful operations.
The assistance that the government of the Netherlands sent to opposition groups in Syria was used by members of these groups to conduct combat operations, according to a joint investigation by the Dutch Television and Radio Broadcasting Corporation (NOS) and the newspaper Trouw.
The probe revealed that at the request of the media, the government documents which indicated that “almost all the equipment” supplied by the Netherlands to such militant groups as the Levant Front and the Jaysh al-Nasr was used during the fighting.
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“In addition, two other groups appeared in the documents, which have not previously been mentioned by NOS and Trouw,” the inquiry said, referring to the so-called “Second Central Division” and the Jaish al-Nasr-affiliated Hama Rebel Gathering.
The probe claimed that the equipment included vehicles that the opposition groups used for the attacks and laptops to locate combat targets.
The investigation noted that these data runs counter to Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok's statements that Amsterdam's assistance to the Syrian opposition groups was of a “non-military nature”.
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