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3,000 additional US troops heading to Middle East: Officials
The United States is sending nearly 3,000 additional troops to the Middle East from the 82nd Airborne Division as a precaution amid rising threats to American forces in the region, US officials said on Friday. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the troops would be joining the roughly 750 forces that were sent…

The United States is sending nearly 3,000 additional troops to the Middle East from the 82nd Airborne Division as a precaution amid rising threats to American forces in the region, US officials said on Friday.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the troops would be joining the roughly 750 forces that were sent to Kuwait earlier this week.
US officials told Reuters news agency earlier this week that thousands of additional troops could be sent to the region and had been told to prepare to deploy.
The reported deployment comes after US President Donald Trump ordered the killing of of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.
Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, was killed by US forces in an air raid at Baghdad International Airport early on Friday. Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) was also killed. Iran has threatened severe retaliation.
US officials have defended the move, saying Iran was planning imminent action that threatened American citizens.
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