CBS News: Why is President Obama sending more troops to Syria?
President Obama will send up to 250 additional military personnel inside war-raved Syria to work with opposition forces trying to defeat ISIS.
The president delivered the news in Hannover, Germany while visiting a major industrial trade fair. One group of militias fighting ISIS in Syria said they're happy to get more troops, but also need more weapons.
The president's decision expands the American military footprint in Syria,m from 50 commandos to 300 -- something the president has been very reluctant to do. But this is an attempt to squeeze ISIS as much as he can before leaving office, reports CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 26, 2016
US forces to Syria: Mission creep, or a sign of success? -- Reshmi Kaur Oberoi, Christian Science Monitor
Obama's troop increase in Syria is part of a troubling trend -- Trevor Timm, The Guardian
What’s In Saudi Arabia’s Blueprint for Life After Oil? -- Bloomberg
The 'out-of-the-box' proposal on the Golan Heights -- Uri Savir, Al-Monitor
Why Nepal Is Still in Rubble a Year After a Devastating Quake -- Nikhil Kumar, Time
China's Xi Jinping: Reformer in disguise? -- Steven Jiang, CNN
Seven reasons you should care about Libya -- Nic Robertson, CNN
Will Oil And Refugees Force European Intervention In Libya -- Irina Slav, OilPrice.com
International odd couple: How Obama and Merkel forged a special bond -- Greg Jaffe, Washington Post
Europe and Russia no longer know how to talk to each other. That is dangerous -- The Economist
How the next US president should handle Putin -- Michael E. O'Hanlon, Business Insider/The Brookings Institution
The Heat Is Rising as Russia's Economy Falters -- Samuel Bendett, The Compass
Austrian far-right stuns Europe in presidential first round -- Matthew Karnitschnig and Vince Chadwick, Politico
The Euro's Next Existential Crisis -- Mark Gilbert, Bloomberg
Google and Europe Should Not Be Enemies -- Bloomberg editorial
Monaco, where the 1 per cent learned to dodge taxes -- mark Braude, The Globe and Mail
Who is Gen. James Mattis, and why do some Republicans want to run him for president? -- Zack Beauchamp, VOX
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