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Pentagon Delivers Plan to Speed up Fight Against Islamic State That May Boost US Troop Presence in Syria

  • February 27, 2017
  • Jeff Daniels
  • CNBC

“What that might look like is putting an extra 4,000 to 5,000 U.S. troops into Syria in order to help accelerate operations around Raqqa in the next 6 to 9 months,” said Hal Brands, a national security expert and senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington, D.C.

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