US could deploy combat troops in Syria: report

CNN is reporting the US Defence Department may recommend that the US deploy regular combat troops to Syria for the first time to fight Islamic State militants.

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The US Defence Department may recommend that the United States deploy regular combat troops to Syria for the first time to fight Islamic State militants, CNN is reporting.

A small number of US special forces operate in the war-torn country but the previous Obama administration had rejected putting combat troops into the middle of Syria's civil war.

CNN said on Wednesday the Pentagon had not yet proposed the deployment to the White House.