US President Barack Obama has commented on his plan to send Special Forces to Syria and said that the move would not violate his 2013 promise not to send US troops into Syria.
"Keep in mind that we have run special ops already and really this is just an extension of what we are continuing to do," President Obama told NBC Nightly News.
He added that "I have been consistent throughout that we are not going to be fighting like we did in Iraq with battalions and occupations. That doesn't solve the problem."