Deployment Ready Brigade (Alert Brigade) deployed due to US embassy siege



The US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division’s alert brigade of roughly 4,000 paratroopers, known as the Deployment Ready Brigade (DRB), has been issued orders to prepare for a possible deployment in the days ahead in Kuwait, three US defense officials told Fox News on Tuesday.
At least 500 paratroopers are already making their way to Kuwait, the officials added.
Earlier in the day, US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in a statement that at least 750 paratroopers were set to swiftly deploy to the region.
He added that additional forces from the Immediate Response Force (IRF) were prepared to deploy over the next several days.
“This deployment is an appropriate and precautionary action taken in response to increased threat levels against US personnel and facilities, such as we witnessed in Baghdad today,” The US defense secretary stated.
The US embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad was evacuated on Tuesday after thousands of angry demonstrators gathered outside the gates of the compound to condemn Washington’s fatal military aggression that targeted Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) on Sunday.
The protesters held up signs calling for the US mission to be shut down and for the parliament to order US forces to leave Iraq.
American forces deployed inside the compound fired tear gas, flash bangs and stun grenades to disperse the crowd, however, the Iraqi protesters breached the outer wall of the high-security compound, throwing bricks and stones at the surveillance cameras around the building.
Reacting to the developments in Iraq, US President Donald Trump accused Tehran of being behind the mass protests outside the US embassy in Baghdad.
Rejecting the US accusations, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi stressed that Washington should abandon its destructive policies in the region and warned US officials against taking any uncalculated action.
There are currently 60,000 US troops in the Middle East, of which some 5,000 are in Iraq. Almost 14,000 of those have been added since May 2019, with the Pentagon citing a rising “threat” from Iran.

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