Iraqi and Syrian sources report that the United States on Tuesday transferred Marine units from Jordan to further further bolster its two big Iraqi air bases at Ayn al-Asad in the western Iraqi province of Anbar and Al-Habaniyeh near Baghdad. Those sources estimate that 10,000 US troops are now deployed at the two bases.
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