 Complete the following phrase:  In late 2012 or early 2013, at the direction of U.S. President Barack Obama, the Central Intelligence Agency CIA was put in charge of Timber Sycamore, a covert program to arm and train the rebels who were fighting against Syrian President Bashar Assad, while the State Department supplied the Free Syrian Army with non-lethal aid. Following the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Civil War on several occasions, including the 