Top U.S. military officials are saying that the battle to wrest control of Mosul away from the Islamic State fighters and back into Iraqi government control is likey to be central.
So far, U.S. President Barack Obama has repeatedly said there will be no U.S. forces in combat on the ground in Iraq and Syria fighting these jihadis.
In an interview with Martha Raddatz of America's ABC News' programme "This Week," the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey said there are circumstances where American forces may have to fight.
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