Barack Obama yesterday said he was sending up to 300 “military advisers” to Iraq to help its embattled government to fight back against the Sunni insurgents who have pushed the country to the brink of a sectarian civil war.
Mr Obama said the troops would help collect intelligence about the militants now in control of swaths of the northwest potentially to help co-ordinate “targeted” air strikes.
The decision to send even a small number of troops back to Iraq represents a striking change of heart for Mr Obama, whose two presidential election campaigns were built around a pledge to end the US war in the country.
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