US to send 3,000 soldiers to Middle East

The United States will be sending approximately 3,000 soldiers to the Middle East after thousands of people stormed the compound of the US Embassy in Baghdad, three US defense officials and one military official confirmed to NBC News on Friday.

The deployment of additional soldiers from a brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division, based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, comes after thousands of people, most of them affiliated with the Iran-backed Shiite militia group Kataib Hezbollah, descended on the embassy compound Tuesday.

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