The official did not say where the troops were deploying.
Rangers are the Army’s elite light infantry force, specializing in raids to kill or capture enemy leaders. At the height of the Iraq War, the Rangers led a secretive unit responsible for hunting Iranian operatives and the leaders of Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite militias in the country, known as Task Force 17.
One of those militias, Kataib Hezbollah, attacked the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday as part of an escalation that began with intensifying rocket attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq. After a rocket attack killed a U.S. contractor late last month, the Pentagon launched airstrikes against five Kataib Hezbollah bases in Iraq and Syria last weekend, prompting the embassy assault.
On Thursday night, U.S. aircraft killed both Soleimani and Kataib Hezbollah’s founder, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, in a strike near Baghdad International Airport.
On Saturday, the military announced that rocket attacks were carried out near bases that house U.S. troops in Baghdad and Balad, and that no U.S. troops were injured.
Source: politico.com
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