President Barack Obama has authorized the first sustained deployment of special forces to Syria, the White House said Friday, relenting on a long-standing refusal to put American boots on the ground.
Obama okayed a deployment of "fewer than 50" special operations forces in the north of the war-ravaged nation in a bid to strengthen forces fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) group, spokesman Josh Earnest said, according to AFP.
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