US To Send More 600 Ground Troops To Iraq

United States has lately announced more 615 soldiers to be heading to Iraq to fight against the Islamic State militant group and liberate the country’s second largest city Mosul. With this the number of American troops crosses the mark of 5,000 for the first time since 2011.

It is learned more than 5,200 US troops will be combating on the ground along withb Iraq and coalition forces.

Mosul and also the Raqqa city were captured by the ISIS jihadi group some two years ago.

Meanwhile, bombings in eastern Aleppo have gone worst at night and families are reported to have huddled together in one room in the dark without electricity and warplanes flying overhead target.

The rescue workers meanwhile dig victims out of the rubble left by earlier bombing and haul them to hospitals which are already crowded with patients being even treated on the floor by doctors.

Two of such hospitals in the rebel-held portion of eastern Aleppo were also struck by bombs on Wednesday at around 3:30 a.m. and killed two patients. Later in the day more bombs were dropped and have put the buildings out of use.

Such is the current scenes in rebel-held Aleppo, filled with terror of life. In past four years, since the rebel took control of the portion of Aleppo, the city has seen regular airstrikes, but nothing like the intensity of the past week.

A week before the US-and Russian-sponsored cease-fire collapsed and was followed by the launch of a Syrian government offensive, which were backed by airstrikes from Russia, to regain the lost territory. Doctors, medical workers and residents describe the operation as the most ferocious bombardments one.