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 The aid comes as the U.S. military separately prepares to train
and equip Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State militants in Syria.
The non-lethal aid will go toward basic community services,
supporting "vetted units of the armed opposition," digital security
training, and documentation of war crimes and other violations by
the Syrian regime, the State Department said.
"As we have long said, Assad must go and be replaced through a
negotiated political transition that is representative of the Syrian
people," said Alistair Baskey, a spokesman for the White House
National Security Council, in a statement.
The non-lethal aid, announced on the fourth anniversary of the
revolution against Assad, brings total U.S. support to the Syrian
opposition to nearly $400 million since the start of the revolution,
the State Department said.
(Reporting by Emily Stephenson and Roberta Rampton; Editing by
Sandra Maler)
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