article_snippet: Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the UK would send around 75 military trainers to train Syrian rebels .
article_snippet: Britain is to provide military training to Syrian rebel groups fighting ISIS, the Government has announced on the final day of Parliament.
article_snippet: Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the UK the UK would send around 75 military trainers and headquarters staff to provide instruction in the use of weapons, infantry tactics and medical skills.
article_snippet: The training, which forms part of a US-led programme to support the moderate Syrian opposition, will take place in Turkey.
article_snippet: The training programme, expected to start in the coming weeks, is intended to equip and train thousands of screened members of the opposition in Syria over the next three years.
article_snippet: British military instructors have already been providing training to Kurdish peshmerga militias fighting ISIS in northern Iraq.
article_snippet: British troops will be sent to Turkey to train moderate Syrian forces battling ISIS, such as those above holding a flag with 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' The UK continues to be the second largest contributor to the coalition airstrike campaign and is playing a leading role in the coalition's counter improvised explosive device (C-IED) training programme, the Ministry of Defence said.
article_snippet: This is in addition to the infantry and Heavy Machine Gun skills training packages the MoD has already delivered to over 1,100 members of the Iraqi Forces.
highlights_snippet: Military trainers will provide instruction in the use of weapons and tactics .
  
highlights_snippet: Training forms part of US programme to support moderate Syrian forces .
  
highlights_snippet: Defence Secretary Michael Fallon announced move to Commons today .