U.S. To Send 275 Combat Troops To Defend The U.S. Embassy In Baghdad (Updated)

Obama Announces 275 US Troops WILL Be Sent To Iraq To Protect American Embassy In Baghdad Days After Saying They Would Not Return -- Daily Mail

* President Obama announced that American troops are being deployed to Iraq
* Returning nearly three years after the United States withdrew in 2011
* Deployed to protect American personnel and embassy staff in Baghdad
* This comes as John Kerry says Washington is 'open to discussions' with Tehran about military cooperation
* He also told Yahoo! News correspondent Katie Couric that drone strikes also 'may well be' an option in the coming days
* Just a year ago, Obama was weighing ever-tougher sanctions against Iran's mullahs
* ISIS captured Tal Afar, a key northern town along the highway to Syria, early on Monday, with a population of 200,000 people
* The US Navy has sent yet another ship into the Persian Gulf, this time to carry Osprey combat helicopters

President Obama announced on Monday evening that US ground troops 'equipped for combat' are being sent to Iraq – just days after claiming that no American soldiers would be deployed to the war-torn country.

In a letter to Congress, the president said American troops will be returning to Iraq only three years after they left and their deployment began on Sunday.

Obama said that their only purpose will be to protect U.S. personnel and the embassy in Baghdad – and not to join in the fierce fighting raging outside the Iraqi capital.

The president did tell Congress, however, that American military personnel in Baghdad will be 'equipped for combat.'

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