President Barack Obama announced on Monday that his administration would deploy an extra 250 special forces soldiers to Syria, a step that represents the biggest expansion of U.S. ground troops in Syria since the civil war began. The new deployment will increase U.S. forces in Syria to about 300.
With German Chancellor Angela Merkel sitting in the audience, Obama also called on Europe and NATO allies to do more in the fight against ISIS, which is also known as ISIL.
The main Syrian opposition welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to deploy forces.
Salem al-Meslet, spokesman of the High Negotiations Committee, one of only a few HNC representatives still in Geneva for informal talks with the U.N. Special Envoy on Syria, said in a statement referring to ISIS or Daesh:
“President Obama’s decision to deploy 250 more troops to fight the Daesh in Syria is a good step. We must rid our country of this scourge. But Syria will not be free of terrorism until we see the end of the Assad regime’s reign of terror. We need help in freeing our country from Assad as well as from the Daesh.”

Source: Asharq Al-Awsat English, 25 APRIL 2016