Another 250 US Troops get Deeper Into Syria

As many as 250 U.S. Special Operations Forces and support staff are headed to Syria to increase support for local forces that are battling the self-proclaimed Islamic State, a defense official disclosed And they probably won’t be the last.

The additional forces, which will increase the U.S presence in Syria fivefold, will begin arriving in the next two weeks and be a part of a “slow build up,” the official said.

The U.S. troops are the latest to be deployed in a war that started with Obama administration officials promising there would be “no boots on the ground” but that now is seeing routine, incremental
increases in troop deployments. This is the second deployment announcement in as many weeks, and officials at the Pentagon concede more will likely be deployed as the battles gear up to reclaim Mosul and Raqqa, ISIS’s de facto capitals in Iraq and Syria, respectively.

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