WASHINGTON
The U.S. is deploying roughly 3,000 additional troops to the Middle East after it killed a top Iranian general, according to multiple reports published Friday.
The new deployment will include soldiers from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, the reports said citing anonymous defense and military officials.
They will be sent to both Iraq and Kuwait, according to NBC News.
Qassem Soleimani, the head of the elite Quds Force who was the chief architect of Iran’s Middle East operations, was killed early Friday morning in a U.S. airstrike outside of Baghdad’s airport.
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