Iraqi forces advance as US boosts Syria troops

Iraqi forces advanced on the Islamic State group in west Mosul on Thursday as the United States nearly doubled its troops to help defeat the jihadists in their Syrian stronghold Raqa.The US-led coalition fighting IS said the United States was deploying another 400 troops against the jihadists in their self-proclaimed capital in Syria, joining 500 already on the ground."They are temporary forces," coalition spokesman US Colonel John Dorrian told reporters in Baghdad, adding the long-term authoris