(Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect additional information from a White House media teleconference call.) The Defense Department is re-tooling its embattled effort to train and equip thousands of Syrian rebels -- which resulted in only a small number of vetted fighters to take on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant -- and is now focusing on assisting a much narrower group of "vetted leaders" and their units, according to senior government officials. Under...
