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UPDATED: Marines with 11th MEU Join the Ground Fight in Syria
By: Gidget Fuentes
March 9, 2017 1:29 AM • Updated: March 9, 2017 11:34 AM
The following post has been updated with a statement from U.S. Central Command.
An undisclosed number of Marines assigned to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit arrived in Syria recently to join U.S. forces and local forces poised to push Islamic State militants out of the city of Raqqa, according to a report in The Washington Post.
It remained unclear, however, as of late Wednesday, whether their presence marks the start of a much larger deployment of U.S. ground troops in Syria to expand the scope of U.S. operations on the ground or to bolster support to special operations forces already advising local troops in their fight against the Islamic State.
https://news.usni.org/2017/03/09/report-marines-11th-meu-join-ground-fight-syria