Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Pentagon official said the recruitment of so-called moderate Syrian rebels to go through training programs in Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates will end.
The official added that a much smaller training center will be opened in Turkey, where a small number of "enablers" - mostly leaders of opposition groups - will be taught operational maneuvers, such as how to call in airstrikes.
Defense Department officials are expected to officially announce the end of the training program later on Friday.
A top US General told Congress in September that only "four or five" US-trained rebels were still fighting on the ground, with Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ga.) calling the program a "total failure."
Comment: Notch up another failure to the Obama administration.