Top US general readies ‘full range’ of Syria options for Trump
By Agence France-Presse -
February 24, 2017
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The Pentagon’s top officer on Thursday would not say if US ground forces will deploy to Syria to fight Daesh terrorists, observing only that he is readying a “full range of options” for President Donald Trump.
General Joe Dunford’s remarks come as the Pentagon finalizes a new plan to defeat Daesh that Trump ordered shortly after taking office.
“We’ve been given a task to go to the president with options to accelerate the defeat of ISIS (and) other violent extremist groups,” Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said when asked if more US forces would go to Syria.
“We will go to (Trump) with a full range of options from which he can choose,” he said, speaking at the Brookings Institution.
America has approximately 500 troops in Syria, mainly special operations commandos who are training and assisting a coalition of local fighters battling Daesh.
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