The US and Iraq have agreed on a plan that could send approximately 615 additional US troops to Iraq in the coming days to assist Iraqi forces in the battle to retakeMosul from ISIS.<br />The plan was discussed for several weeks before PresidentBarack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi agreed on the details, an official told CNN.<br />ThePentagon has about 6,000 troops, mostly operating as advisors and trainers, inIraq.<br />U.S.-led coalition warplanes based outside Iraq have carried out thousands of airstrikes since mid-2014.<br />Most of the new U.S. troops will be deployed to Qayyarah, an Iraqi airbase known as Q-West about 40 miles south of Mosul that has become a key staging base for the planned assault.
