American Soldiers Deployed Syria

President Obama has authorized American troops to go to Syria to help with the fight against ISIS. But he also acknowledged that the military measures announced Friday by the White House, which will send 50 or fewer Special Operations troops to northern Syria and increase air assets in Turkey, will not advance that aim.

SOHR on Monday reported the SDF killed five IS militants, injured 10 and captured another three during fighting in the area.

When he was asked why the Obama administration announced the dispatch of a contingent of Special Operations forces to Syria on the same day a multinational conference was discussing diplomatic solutions to the country's civil war, Secretary of State John F. Kerry responded that it was a "coincidence". In a nationally televised address in September 2013, Obama said: "I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria". Unfortunately, the deliriously dysfunctional plan by the White House via the Pentagon is real; Mr. Obama is putting boots on the ground in Syria, but only up to 50 pair, for now.

A spokesman later said alliance forces had already attacked Islamic State group fighters.

In August previous year, Mr Obama said he did not yet have a strategy to combat Islamic State in Syria. and would not deploy USA troops. The USA can still learn from our mistakes in Iraq and Afghanistan, but as the President commits more fully to a military response, the door is closing.

Despite killing as many as 12,000 militants, the bombing has not significantly weakened the ISIL's capacity to hold territory, and foreign fighters and others have replenished the group's ranks. It was the first time the United States has openly sent forces into Syria, expanding the geographic reach of Obama's military efforts in the Middle East. It is the first full-time deployment of US forces to the civil war-ravaged country.

These aren't technically combat troops; their mission will be to "advise, assist and enable" Syrian rebels fighting ISIS.

The group writes in its official website, "It is becoming clear to all but the most obtuse observers that President Obama and his advisors have no clue what to do about Syria". The Rangers are part of the United States special forces that could see action in Syria soon. In this case, Kirby said, creating capable indigenous Syrian forces in camps outside Syria was more hard than expected.

Amid Obama's reluctance to become enmeshed in another Middle East war, the US-backed opposition - a uneasy mix of Kurds, Shia and Sunni Arabs - has been reluctant to fight IS rather than President Bashar al-Assad. They said USA officials had no plans to supply any kind of surface-to-air missiles, known as MANPADs, to Syrian rebels, "While it is understandable for the opposition to want to strike directly against the Russians, proliferation of MANPADS into an area with a large terrorist presence is beyond unsafe", one intelligence official added, referring to shoulder-fired heat-seeking missile weapons.