US Deploys Military Advisers to Northern Iraq

The United States has deployed another 130 military advisers to northern Iraq to help find ways to assist displaced Iraqis who are trapped on a mountain by Sunni Muslim extremists. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel stressed Tuesday that the deployment to the city of Erbil is limited to advising Iraqi security forces. "As the president has made very clear, we're not going back into Iraq, in any of the same combat mission dimensions that we once were in in Iraq. Very...

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