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| 400 Additional US Troops Arrive |
| 400 Additional US Troops Arrive In Iraq Ahead Of Mosul Push
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 8-September-2016
20:46:44 PM |
| More than 400 additional US troops have deployed to Iraq in recent days, a defense official said Thursday, as local forces prepare for an assault on Mosul, the ISIS group's last major Iraqi stronghold.
Colonel John Dorrian, a spokesman for the US-led coalition that has been attacking ISIS in Iraq and Syria for the last two years, said the number of US troops in country had grown from about 4,000 a week ago to 4,460 today.
The deployments had been previously authorized earlier this year.
Dorrian did not say what the troops would be doing, but their arrival comes as Iraqi security forces continue "shaping operations" around Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city.
Much of the work is focused on an airfield near the town of Qayyarah, which will provide a staging area for Iraqi forces pushing toward the northern city Mosul.
Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend, the new commander of the US-led coalition, told the Wall Street Journal late on Wednesday that the assault could begin within the next month
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