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US deploying up to 3,500 troops to Middle East after Soleimani killing: official

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/tvpatrol/01/02/20200103-us-marine.jpg"/><figcaption>A US Marine with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, assigned to the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command (SPMAGTF-CR-CC) 19.2, looks through the scope of a M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper System (SASS) at the US embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 3, 2020. Sgt. Kyle C. Talbot, US Marine Corps/Handout/Reuters</figcaption></figure></div>WASHINGTON—The US is deploying up to 3,500 more troops to the Middle East in a show of force, a Pentagon official said Friday, after an American drone killed a top Iranian general.The reinforcements will come from the 82nd Airborne Division&#x27;s Global Response Force, which already supplied several hundred extra troops to the region earlier this week as tensions grew over an attack on the US embassy in Baghdad.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/01/03/20/top-iran-commander-dep-head-of-iraqi-military-force-killed-in-airport-attack-state-tv">Iran vows revenge after US kills top general in Baghdad strike</a></li></ul>A Defense Department spokesperson said that the 82nd Airborne&#x27;s Immediate Response Force brigade had already been notified earlier this week that they could be sent to the region.&quot;The brigade will deploy to Kuwait as an appropriate and precautionary action in response to increased threat levels against US personnel and facilities, and will assist in reconstituting the reserve,&quot; the official said.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/01/04/20/how-the-world-is-reacting-to-us-killing-of-top-iran-general">How the world is reacting to US killing of top Iran general</a></li></ul>The move came as tensions soared following the US killing of Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps&#x27; foreign operations arm, whom Washington said was behind attacks on US facilities in Iraq in recent months.

The US is deploying up to 3,500 more troops to the Middle East in a show of force, a Pentagon official said Friday, after an American drone killed a top Iranian general.

The US is deploying up to 3,500 more troops to the Middle East in a show of force, a Pentagon official said Friday, after an American drone killed a top Iranian general.