The Washington Post: PARIS – Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said Tuesday that the number of U.S. troops deployed to Iraq will likely increase, citing the recent success in taking the city of Ramadi back from the Islamic State and a need to train more Iraqi military and police units as the campaign against the militants expands.
Carter said that the additional U.S. troops would be part of a larger force of military advisers that also could include more troops from countries whose defense ministers he will meet with here Wednesday. Ministers from France, Britain, Australia, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands are gathering in Paris to discuss how the military campaign in Iraq and Syria should evolve.
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