U.S. sends more troops to Middle East as Iran tensions soar

Trump, who has repeatedly claimed to be pulling U.S. troops out of conflict zones, on Friday sent more soldiers to the Middle East.

A Pentagon official said 3,000 to 3,500 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division's Global Response Force, which had already had sent hundreds of reinforcements earlier this week after protests at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, will go to Kuwait.

Some 14,000 other troops have already been deployed as reinforcements to the Middle East this year, and the U.S. already had around 60,000 military personnel in the region.