US Troops to Deploy to Iraq in January to Train, Advise Iraqi Security Forces
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Marcio Silva/iStock/Thinkstock(BAGHDAD) — U.S. troops will arrive in Iraq in January in order to begin training and advising Iraqi security forces.
At a Friday press briefing, Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said that 1,300 Americans will head to Iraq in January. About 1,000 of those troops will come from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, with 300 or so coming from other services.
The U.S. plans to establish four main training areas — in Baghdad, Erbil, Anbar and a fourth near Baghdad — where American and coalition forces will train 12 Iraqi Army brigades.
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