America
No more US troops abroad to fight IS: Obama
Washington, July 7
US President Barack Obama
said that local forces should be the main forces to fight the extremist
group the Islamic State (IS) and currently there was no plan for his
administration to send more troops abroad.
Obama on Monday told
reporters after being briefed by US military leadership on the status of
US-led coalition campaign that to succeed in a long-term fight against
the IS, "we have to develop local security forces that can sustain
progress," Xinhua reported.
The rare visit to the Pentagon came
as Obama, though insisting he would not send US "boots on the ground",
was enhancing the US military involvement in Iraq to help combat IS
fighters by adding another 450 military trainers and advisors to help
Iraqi troops to retake Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar province,
which fell to IS in May.