President Barack Obama said today that the United States "will not be sending U.S. troops back into combat in Iraq," but that he would be reviewing a range of other options to support the Iraqi government against a sweeping advance by militant fighters.
Obama said that unless Iraq fixes its internal political problems, short-term military help from the United States won't make much difference.
However, the U.S. Navy was moving the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush into the Persian Gulf to give Obama an option for possible U.S. airstrikes, a U.S. official told CNN.
Fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, have seized Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, as part of an advance toward Baghdad that gave them control of large parts of the country's northern area.
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