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Meanwhile, the US has said it is stepping up its support of the coalition.

WASHINGTON — The United States is significantly stepping up its support for the Syrian opposition, senior administration officials said on Wednesday, helping to train rebels at a base in the region and for the first time offering armed groups nonlethal assistance and equipment that could help their military campaign.

Mr. Hoffman said that the United States should consider stepping up its support for the French intervention by providing additional logistical support and perhaps making use of drones so that the French military can better carry out its operations and hand over the mission as soon as possible to African troops.

Third, and perhaps most perniciously, the deal means that the United States is stepping up its support for Saudi Arabia's proxy war against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, in which more than ten thousand civilians have already been killed, an unknown number of whom were blown to pieces by American-supplied bombs.

Meanwhile, Russia is stepping up its support for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.

Given the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, UNICEF is stepping up its support in health, education, water and sanitation, psychosocial counseling, and recreational activities for adolescents and younger children.

Under his leadership, covert action increased in such places as Afghanistan, Central America, and Angola, and the agency stepped up its support for various anticommunist insurgent organizations.

After Riyadh turned Yemen into a proxy war Iran stepped up its support.

Bike manufacturer Cannonade stepped up its support for 2015, which has given the team both more resources and legitimacy.

Meanwhile, Libya stepped up its support for anti-western militants such as the Provisional IRA, and in 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie in Scotland, killing 243 passengers and 16 crew members, plus 11 people on the ground.

Lethal defensive weapons alone will not suffice for Kiev to defeat the rebels and might actually spur Russia to step-up its support.