United States to deploy additional forces to Iraq

[Mary Naeem]

United States to deploy additional forces to Iraq







The United States will deploy additional forces to Iraq and make Apache attack helicopters available to support the country's troops, U.S. Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter said Monday in Baghdad.
"We are going to bring in additional forces," Carter said, adding that the Apaches will support Iraqi efforts to surround and eventually recapture second city Mosul from the ISIL extremist group.
A senior U.S. defence official said around 200 additional American military personnel would be deployed, pushing the total figure past 4,000.
The United States heads an international coalition that is carrying out strikes against ISIL and also providing training and other assistance to forces fighting the extremists in both Iraq and neighbouring Syria.World Bulletin News