WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Barack Obama would consider sending more troops to fight Daesh insurgents in the Middle East if the administration’s latest deployment of nearly 500 personnel to Iraq and Syria yields successful results, White House spokesperson Josh Earnest said during a press briefing on Tuesday.
"If this additional commitment of additional troops yields positive results, and the Department of Defense concludes, that again, additional results could be generated with an additional commitment, than that's something that the president [Obama] would consider," Earnest said when asked if there was a possibility that Washington would send more troops to fight Daesh in the near future.
Earnest noted that it would be something that Obama and the Pentagon would "consider quite carefully given the significant risk that these special operators are facing."
