Hundreds of US troops help fight ISIS in Iraq’s Anbar

Some 350 US troops on the ground in Iraq’s Anbar province are helping the 7th Iraqi Division develop strategies, mission planning and coordinating close air support operations, said the spokesman for the Joint chiefs chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey Saturday. They are “not accompanying Iraq forces into combat,” he stressed.

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