The Obama administration is preparing to equip the so-called "moderate" Syrian rebels with the ability to order U.S. air strikes despite the group's admitted allegiance to the Islamic State.

Members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) will be provided with radios to call in strikes from American B-1B bombers as well as pickup trucks with mounted machine guns as the president puts the final touches on plans to train as many as 3,000 rebels in Jordan and Turkey by the end of 2015....