US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter speaks during a joint news conference with Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul, Afghanistan December 9, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS
"I can tell you today that the United States will deploy approximately 200 additional US forces in Syria," Carter told Gulf policymakers in the Bahraini capital Manama.
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Washington already has some 300 special forces troops deployed as military advisers with the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance.
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