US President Donald Trump’s administration is weighing a deployment of up to 1,000 American soldiers to Kuwait to serve as a reserve force in the fight against Islamic State as US-backed fighters accelerate the offensive in Syria and Iraq, US officials told Reuters. “This is about providing options,” said one US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Obama’s administration was often accused of micromanaging even the smallest tactical details about the fight against Islamic State, weighing in on the use of helicopters or movement of small numbers of US forces. Trump has made defeating Islamic State one of the key goals of his presidency. In a sign of advancing US preparations for Raqqa, an American official said on Wednesday that a small group of Marines have entered Syria.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 09, 2017 02:35 UTC