President Obama will announce Monday that he is sending up to 250 additional military personnel to Syria to assist local forces in the fight against ISIS, a senior administration official confirmed to ABC News.
The personnel will include a mix of special operations forces and support personnel, the official said. The president will discuss this step during remarks at the Hannover Messe fairgrounds in Germany Monday morning.
In October, the president directed the Pentagon to send up to 50 special operations forces into Syria to assist the Syrian opposition in the fight against ISIS, meaning that with Monday’s announcement, the total of American military personnel in the country could go up to 300.
In an interview with the BBC released today, Obama again ruled out deploying ground troops to Syria and argued it's one issue that requires a "trans-national response."
"It would be a mistake for the United States, or Great Britain ... to send in ground troops and overthrow the [Bashar al-] Assad regime," he told the BBC.
"It would be, I think, tempting, for a lot of people, to believe that we can pull up the drawbridge and that we can carve a moat around ourselves and not have to deal with problems around the world," he said.
The president will also attend a meeting with European leaders to discuss security issues –- including the situation in Syria –- and to encourage them to bolster their intelligence sharing between their countries in the wake of the Brussels and Paris attacks. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will host the meeting, which will also be attended by British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Francois Hollande, and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
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