US deploys additional troops to Iraq

The US is sending over 600 additional troops to Iraq, to work with local forces in taking Mosul back from ISIS.

Both US and Iraqi officials have confirmed the troop increase, which is the third one since April.

Rebecca Foster reports from Washington.

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