{"id":244947,"date":"2016-05-21T02:08:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T02:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-military-gearing-up-for-upcoming-libya-mission-dunford\/"},"modified":"2016-05-21T02:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T02:08:44","slug":"us-military-gearing-up-for-upcoming-libya-mission-dunford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-military-gearing-up-for-upcoming-libya-mission-dunford\/","title":{"rendered":"US military gearing up for upcoming Libya mission: Dunford"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"96\">\n<p><strong>The US military is in a \u201cperiod of intense dialogue\u201d with the Libyan government and may deploy troops and equipment to the troubled North African country \u201cany day\u201d now, says the US military\u2019s top general.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marine General Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the comments on Thursday, on his way back to the US from the Belgian capital city of Brussels, where he met with military chiefs from NATO nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of activity going on underneath the surface,\u201d Dunford said. \u201cWe\u2019re just not ready to deploy capabilities yet because there hasn\u2019t been an agreement. And frankly, any day that could happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The general noted that some NATO members were interested in the mission. However, the specifics of the mission remain unclear at this point.<\/p>\n<p>The operation will assumingly focus on training and equipping militant groups loyal to Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj, the leader of the new Libyan Government of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/05\/21\/466619\/Libya-US-Dunford-troops-deployment\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military is in a \u201cperiod of intense dialogue\u201d with the Libyan government and may deploy troops and equipment to the troubled North African country \u201cany day\u201d now, says the US military\u2019s top general. Marine General Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the comments on Thursday, on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}