The United States will be deploying additional troops to the Middle East in the coming days, following an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, defense officials confirmed.
After violent protesters, including members of various Iran-backed groups, gathered outside the U.S. embassy in Baghdad in response to defensive U.S. air strikes on Iraq over the weekend, the Pentagon said that an additional 750 soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division alert brigade were being rapidly deployed to Kuwait. This is in addition to the Marines who are already on location protecting embassy personnel.
