US military personnel arrive in Iraq
to prepare for troop surge in ISIS fight
- Reuters
- ALTHOUGH CONGRESS has yet to approve $5.6 billion in funding to send 1,500 more troops to Iraq, a team of about 50 military personnel are visiting a US military airbase in Anbar province to bolster Iraqi forces in the region in the fight against the Islamic State; left, US troops on a patrol in Baghdad in 2009.