(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) The United States special troops will arrive "very soon" in Syria to advise local ground forces to battle the Daesh terrorist group, US special envoy said Sunday.
During an interview with the CBS TV, Brett McGurk, the presidential envoy for the international coalition to counter Daesh said that special forces from the United States will arrive "very soon" in Syria to "suffocate and strangle" the core of the terrorist group, adding that they will also organize the Syrian Democratic Forces.
President Barack Obama had announced in late October that the US will send 50 special troops to the war-struck country to advise allied forces in their fight against Daesh.
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