
President Barack Obama said Thursday that the United States is prepared to take “targeted and precise” military action against Islamist militants in Iraq, but he pledged that American forces “will not be returning to combat.”
Obama did not provide detail about the nature of the military action or say whether it would include airstrikes. He also said the United States is prepared to send as many as 300 American military advisers to train, advise and support Iraqi security forces.
He said that the fate of Iraq hangs in the balance. Still, the president said: “American forces will not be returning to combat in Iraq, but we will help Iraqis as they take the fight to terrorists.”

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