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President Obama is expected to announce Friday a plan to send a small number of American special operations forces to Syria to help in an advisory role only, Capitol Hill insiders said.
The total number of troops coming from the United States won’t surpass 30, one official said, the Guardian reported.
The troops will “advise and assist” in the fight against ISIS, a second U.S. official told the Guardian.
A White House spokesperson, meanwhile, said to the news outlet: “We have no intention of changing our broader counter ISIL mission to train, advise and assist local partners in the fight to degrade and destroy ISIL. And we have no intention of engaging in long-term, large-scale combat operations, the likes of which we previously saw in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the same time, though, we’ve also said our ongoing process includes intensifying efforts that are successful.”
Josh Earnest, White House spokesman, said in a press briefing on Thursday the Obama administration has no intention of changing its overseas’ military missions to those of combat. But at the same time, Earnest said, Obama will deploy troops in advisory roles and if the operation turns into combat, those troops will act accordingly.
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