(CNN)U.S. military cargo planes gave 50 tons of ammunition to rebel groups overnight in northern Syria, using an air drop of 112 pallets as the first step in the Obama Administration's urgent effort to find new ways to support those groups.
Details of the air mission over Syria were confirmed by a U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly because the details have not yet been formally announced.
"The good guys with guns" idea goes global, though there, as here, it's kinda hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys. Usually the bad guys are the ones with the guns, but...