About 2,000 US servicemen are currently deployed to Syria, up from the previously reported number of 900, Pentagon Spokesman Patrick Ryder told reporters, APA reports citing TASS.
"We have been briefing you regularly that there are approximately 900 US troops deployed to Syria," he said. "I learned today that, in fact, there are approximately 2,000 US troops in Syria."
"These forces, which augment the defeat-ISIS mission, were there before the fall of the Assad regime," he went on to say.
Ryder did not specify the type of troops that arrived in Syria to fight the Islamic State, describing them as "temporary rotational forces that deploy to meet shifting mission requirements, whereas the core 900 deployers are on longer-term deployments."
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