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 President Barack Obama plans to send another 250 U.S. troops into Syria to help opposition¹ fighters battle Islamic State, U.S. officials said late Sunday.

Obama plans to make a formal announcement Monday in Hanover, Germany - the last stop on a week-long trip where he discussed the Islamic State threat with German, British and Saudi leaders.

The extra U.S. forces are expected to include medical and intelligence personnel.

It would bring the number of U.S. troops in Syria to 300.

Obama to Send More Troops to Syria

Earlier, Obama told BBC television there needs to be more than just a military effort to solve Syria's problems.

Instead of direct military confrontation² with Syrian forces, Obama said the international community should apply pressure to Russia and Iran, “who, essentially³, are propping⁴ up President Bashar al-Assad,” to broker⁵ a deal with Syrian rebels to form a new transitional government.

Obama called the war in Syria a “heartbreaking situation of enormous complexity⁶.”

"In order for us to solve the long-term problems in Syria, a military solution alone - and certainly us deploying⁷ ground troops - is not going to bring that about,” he said.

While ruling out an invasion of Syria, Obama said the U.S.-led coalition⁸ will continue airstrikes against Islamic State targets in places like Raqqa and Mosul, “to try to isolate⁹ those portions of the country, and lock down those portions of the country that are sending foreign fighters into Europe.” In doing so, he said it would slowly shrink the amount of territory held by IS.

Obama called the situation in Syria one that is “transnational in nature,” and he chided those countries that haven’t taken part in trying to solve the issue, but still “want the United States to do something about it.”

“You can’t have it both ways,” he said.

1 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

2 confrontation   

n.对抗，对峙，冲突

参考例句：

• We can't risk another confrontation with the union.我们不能冒再次同工会对抗的危险。
• After years of confrontation,they finally have achieved a modus vivendi.在对抗很长时间后，他们最后达成安宁生存的非正式协议。

3 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

4 propping   

支撑

参考例句：

• You can usually find Jack propping up the bar at his local. 你常常可以看见杰克频繁出没于他居住的那家酒店。
• The government was accused of propping up declining industries. 政府被指责支持日益衰败的产业。

5 broker   

n.中间人，经纪人；v.作为中间人来安排

参考例句：

• He baited the broker by promises of higher commissions.他答应给更高的佣金来引诱那位经纪人。
• I'm a real estate broker.我是不动产经纪人。

6 complexity   

n.复杂(性)，复杂的事物

参考例句：

• Only now did he understand the full complexity of the problem.直到现在他才明白这一问题的全部复杂性。
• The complexity of the road map puzzled me.错综复杂的公路图把我搞糊涂了。

7 deploying   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的现在分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Provides support for developing and deploying distributed, component-based applications. 为开发和部署基于组件的分布式应用程序提供支持。
• Advertisement, publishing, repair, and install-on-demand are all available when deploying your application. 在部署应用程序时提供公布、发布、修复和即需即装功能。

8 coalition   

n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合

参考例句：

• The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
• Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。

9 isolate   

vt.使孤立，隔离

参考例句：

• Do not isolate yourself from others.不要把自己孤立起来。
• We should never isolate ourselves from the masses.我们永远不能脱离群众。