{"id":57045,"date":"2020-01-01T11:08:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T03:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=57045"},"modified":"2020-01-01T11:13:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T03:13:19","slug":"u-s-to-deploy-750-u-s-troops-to-middle-east-after-embassy-attack-in-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=57045","title":{"rendered":"U.S. To Deploy 750 U.S. Troops To Middle East After Embassy Attack In Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; U.S. Secretary of Defence, Mark Esper, said on Tuesday that, the United States will deploy about 750 troops immediately, to the Middle East, a move taken hours after demonstrators stormed the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Approximately 750  Soldiers will be deployed to the region immediately, and additional forces from the IRF are prepared to be deployed over the next several days,&#8221; said the Pentagon chief, in a series of tweets on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IRF refers to the Immediate Response Force of the 82nd Airborne Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This deployment is an appropriate and precautionary action, taken in response to increased threat levels against U.S. personnel and facilities, such as we witnessed in Baghdad today (yesterday),&#8221; Esper added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pentagon&#8217;s decision came, hours after hundreds of demonstrators, mourning for the Hashd Shaabi members killed by a U.S. attack in Iraq on Sunday, stormed the U.S. embassy in Baghdad&#8217;s Green Zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. President, Donald Trump, blamed Iran for &#8220;orchestrating an attack&#8221; on the embassy.&#8211; NNN-AGENCIES  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; U.S. Secretary of Defence, Mark Esper, said on Tuesday that, the United States will deploy about 750 troops immediately, to the Middle East, a move taken hours after demonstrators stormed the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. &#8220;Approximately 750 Soldiers will be deployed to the region immediately, and additional forces from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":57047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,286,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57045"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}