US sending more troops to Baghdad embassy

The U.S. will send more troops to protect the embassy compound penetrated by militias and their supporters in Baghdad on Tuesday and does not plan an evacuation, the Pentagon and State Department said. The extra force will consist of a small additional detachment of Marine security guards, two defense officials in Washington said. “U.S. personnel are secure,” added an official from the State Department.

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