In a congressional hearing held in September, General Lloyd Austin, who oversees the war against the IS, told U.S. lawmakers that only "four or five" U.S.-trained Syrian rebels currently remained in fight in Syria and the U.S. military would not reach its goal of training 5,400 Syrian fighters any time soon.

Later, the Pentagon corrected the number of U.S.-trained Syrian rebels currently fighting the IS in Syria to nine.

Senior officials of the Obama administration had said earlier the initial U.S. strategy to recruit, train and arm moderate Syrian rebels failed partly because most of Syrian rebels were more focused on fighting the Syrian government.

The Pentagon admitted on Sept. 25 that U.S.-trained Syrian rebels gave about a quarter of U.S. weapons to an al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria.

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