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US to Deploy Additional 560 Forces to Iraq


7/13/2016 1:59:29 AM

(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Baghdad, July 11 (QNA) - US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter said Monday that the US will deploy an additional 560 forces to Iraq as part of its campaign against the Islamic State ISIS militants .
The new troops will be stationed in Qayyarah airbase, 50 kilometres south of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city.
On Saturday, the airbase was recaptured by Iraqi forces after it had been seized by Islamic State militants in 2014.
Carter had arrived in the Iraqi capital Baghdad earlier on Monday to discuss with Iraqi officials means of confronting Islamic State and retaking the northern city of Mosul. (QNA) .


Qatar News Agency

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