http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/30/politics/syria-troops-special-operations-forces/index.html
The United States is set to deploy U.S. troops on the ground in Syria for the first time to advise and assist rebel forces combating ISIS, multiple officials said.
The White House is expected to announce Friday that the U.S. will deploy a small number of U.S. Special Operations forces to Kurdish-controlled territory in northern Syria. The American troops will help local Kurdish and Arab forces fighting ISIS with logistics and are planning to bolster their efforts.
U.S. Special Ops have previously conducted secretive missions on the ground in Syria, but the deployment marks the first permanent presence of U.S. ground troops in Syria since the U.S. began leading an international effort last year to confront ISIS, the militant Islamist group which now controls broad swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria.
Also, rumors of US forces engaging in combat once again within Iraq.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/23/polit...e-raid-wheeler/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
The first death in four years of an American service member under enemy fire in Iraq is raising questions about the nature of the U.S. commitment there and whether the administration is correct to claim that it's not engaged in a combat role.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter declared Friday, a day after the death of Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler in a hostage rescue mission, that the incident didn't mean that the United States had returned to combat in Iraq, but rather was part of the training and assistance that a detachment of approximately 3,000 troops are providing Iraqis fighting ISIS.
The United States is set to deploy U.S. troops on the ground in Syria for the first time to advise and assist rebel forces combating ISIS, multiple officials said.
The White House is expected to announce Friday that the U.S. will deploy a small number of U.S. Special Operations forces to Kurdish-controlled territory in northern Syria. The American troops will help local Kurdish and Arab forces fighting ISIS with logistics and are planning to bolster their efforts.
U.S. Special Ops have previously conducted secretive missions on the ground in Syria, but the deployment marks the first permanent presence of U.S. ground troops in Syria since the U.S. began leading an international effort last year to confront ISIS, the militant Islamist group which now controls broad swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria.
Also, rumors of US forces engaging in combat once again within Iraq.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/23/polit...e-raid-wheeler/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
The first death in four years of an American service member under enemy fire in Iraq is raising questions about the nature of the U.S. commitment there and whether the administration is correct to claim that it's not engaged in a combat role.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter declared Friday, a day after the death of Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler in a hostage rescue mission, that the incident didn't mean that the United States had returned to combat in Iraq, but rather was part of the training and assistance that a detachment of approximately 3,000 troops are providing Iraqis fighting ISIS.
