Pentagon to deploy roughly 3,500 more troops to Middle East with others placed on alert status, amid tensions with Iran

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Pentagon to deploy roughly 3,500 more troops to Middle East with others placed on alert status, amid tensions with Iran
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Army paratroopers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, board an aircraft bound for the U.S. Central Command area of operations amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

January 4, 2020, 12:35 AMThe killing of Iran's top general in a U.S. airstrike has Iran and its allies vowing revenge.The Pentagon is deploying roughly 3,500 more troops to the Middle East in response to rising tensions in the region withThe soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division could leave Fort Bragg in North Carolina for the Middle East as early as this weekend, two U.S. officials told ABC News.

U.S. Army Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division, deploy from Pope Army Airfield, N.C., Jan. 1, 2020. The Immediate Response Force is being deployment to Baghdad following violent protesters that attacked the U.S. Embassy compound.or its proxies following a U.S. drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran's Quds Force, on Thursday.

The deployment of American reinforcements to the Middle East is a direct response to the possibility that Iran could retaliate against American targets in the region because of Solemeini's death..

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