Moderate Syrian rebel supporters group collapses

McClatchyDC has reported on the demise of the Syrian Support Group, a Washington-based nonprofit organisation that was supposed to aid the US in building the 'moderate' opposition in Syria.

The shutdown was due to in-fighting, a lack of resources and a lack of support from the US administration who are now distancing themselves from the group, though they previously sought to make it the only licensed group to collect money for the Syrian rebels.

“If you’re going to make an investment in developing a relationship, you’ve got to go all the way. You can’t just hope; there has to be a real commitment and follow-through,” Mazen Asbahi, a Chicago-based attorney who served as the president of the Syrian Support Group, said of the U.S. approach to Syria. “There was always this dithering: Are we going to do it or not?”