Carter confirms the deployment of additional ground forces in Iraq and Syria

Carter confirms the deployment of additional ground forces in Iraq and Syria

January 22 announced that US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, Friday, that he will deploy ground forces in the fight against Daash in Iraq and Syria strategy.

Carter said in an interview with the American CNN channel NBC that the United States must help to strengthen the alliance's efforts to address the Daash.

He stressed the need to restore the cities of Mosul, in Iraq and in Syria tenderness of the militant group. The two cities are strongholds for the organization in both countries.

Already private deployment of US troops began in northern Iraq with a mission to train Iraqi forces and cut off supply routes between Iraq and Syria.

And it denied the United States Embassy in Baghdad, the arrival of "a large number" of US military forces to Iraq, and stressed that the coming weeks will see the replacement of the 82nd Airborne Division, counterpart 101 to do the same tasks for the provision of advice and training, as part of the periodic rotation procedures.

The denial came on the eve of the embassy revealed senior officer in command of operations and the desert island that "special force of 1,800 troops from the US Army arrived at the Ein al-Assad base western Anbar province.

The news (Petra) The Jordanian official as saying, "The US special force, which has a population of its members in 1800 officers and soldiers stationed since last Tuesday at the base."

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The official spokesman for the US embassy said, on the evening of Thursday, said that "reports that claim the arrival of a large number of United States military forces to Iraq is incorrect," noting that "the coming weeks will see the replacement of the 82nd Airborne Division, currently stationed in Iraq, the band 101 Airborne, to do the same tasks for the provision of advice and training.