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Germany’s government ruled out dispatching ground troops to Syria to assist a US-led campaign against the IS, pushing back on a request from the US administration.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said Germany’s contribution to the anti-ISIS mission will most likely be confined to existing measures, such as aerial surveillance and assistance to Iraqi Kurds.
“When I say that the government intends to maintain its current measures in the context of the anti-IS coalition, then that certainly includes no ground troops,’’ Seibert told reporters in Berlin.
James Jeffrey, the US special representative for engagement in Syria, made public a request for German soldiers to be dispatched not necessarily to engage in combat but to help with logistics, training and support.