close
Friday April 19, 2024

US to send 600 troops to Iraq to help in Mosul offensive

By AFP
September 28, 2016

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider a-Abadi have agreed to send around 600 extra US troops to Iraq to help in the upcoming Mosul offensive, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday.

The leaders have "approved, and they´ve both directed that the United States increase its contingent of forces there by approximately 600 to further enable Iraqi security forces engaged in the campaign to defeat ISIL," Carter said, using an acronym for IS.