China has told the Syrian government of its willingness to strengthen military cooperation between both countries in the fight against the many Islamic alliances fighting to topple the regime of President Bashar Al Assad.

Chinese media said Rear Admiral Guan Youfei, Director of the Office for International Military Cooperation of China's Central Military Commission, told Syrian Defense Minister Lt. General Fahd Jassem al-Frejj the Chinese military will also provide humanitarian aid to the Assad government.

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"They reached consensus on improving personnel training, and the Chinese military offering humanitarian aid to Syria," according to Chinese media reports.

China sent military advisers to Syria in September 2015, the same month Russia entered the war on Assad's side, to help in the fight against the Islamic State or ISIS. These Chinese advisers joined Russian advisers also training regime forces.

In December 2014, China offered to help Iraq in fighting Islamic State terrorists by launching air strikes. China, however, said it would not join the U.S.-led coalition battling ISIS.

Communist Party of China sources confirmed Chinese advisers are already on the ground in Syria training Assad's military in the use of Chinese weapons such as sniper rifles, rocket launchers and machine guns. China has been selling weapons to Syria for decades.

Both China and Russia have repeatedly blocked resolutions critical of the Assad regime at the United Nations Security Council.

Military analysts believe China's deepening involvement in the Syrian quagmire has the strategic aim of protecting its oil supplies that come mostly from Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. China, however, is unlikely to commit combat troops to fight on Assad's side since this will infuriate Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

China's heightened involvement in the intractable and horrific Syrian civil war further complicates a conflict that might ignite a wider war between the United States and Russia and their respective allies on the ground.

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