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US Sending 200 More Troops in Syria for Raqqa Offensive

US Sending 200 More Troops in Syria for Raqqa Offensive
Sat Dec 10, 2016 10:52:12

Washington will send another 200 troops to Syria to help an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters (YPG – led Syrian Democratic Forces or SDF) seize the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group bastion of Raqqa, Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said on Saturday.

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"I can tell you today that the United States will deploy approximately 200 additional US forces in Syria," Carter told in the Bahrain capital Manama.

Washington already has some 300 Special Forces troops deployed as military advisers with the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance.

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