It is not immediately clear where the roughly 200 additonal troops will end up. In Hamam al-Alil, 15 miles south of Mosul, a U.S. Army artillary battery has also been supporting the Iraqi-led operation into West Mosul in recent months. The fight against ISIS in Mosul has stretched longer than five months. In neighboring Syria, a U.S. Marine artillary battery has been supporting a US-led air assault roughly 30 miles west of Raqqa, the de facto ISIS capital, in recent days. Earlier Sunday, the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced they had captured a strategic airfield in the city, located approximately 30 miles west of Raqqa.

Source: Fox News March 27, 2017 00:33 UTC