美国特种部队将“很快”部署到叙利亚

AS IT IS 2015-11-25 US Special Forces to Deploy¹ to Syria 'Soon' 美国特种部队将“很快”部署到叙利亚

American Special Forces will deploy to Syria soon, says the U.S. representative to the nations fighting Islamic State.

Brett McGurk, the representative, spoke² on American television Sunday. He said U.S. troops will work with Arab forces.

Recently, forces fighting against Islamic State have retaken territory and killed hundreds of IS fighters.

McGurk did not say when American forces would arrive in Syria. He said fewer than 50 of them would enter northern Syria, in his words, “very soon.”

American officials said the special forces troops would train, advise and help anti-IS Arab forces.

McGurk said anti-IS forces have taken back control of about 1,100-square kilometers in the past two weeks and have killed about 300 IS fighters. He says they will try to isolate³ the self-proclaimed capital of IS, in Raqqa. He says officials believe Raqqa is where Islamic State terrorists plan attacks.

He said the goal of the coalition⁴ is to take back territory and kill IS leaders. The coalition wants to end the terrorists’ money supply and stop them from recruiting fighters to become IS militants⁵.

He noted⁶ that the U.N. Security Council on Friday approved a resolution criticizing recent IS attacks. He said the resolution called attacks in Tunisia, Turkey, Beirut and Paris -- and the explosion on a Russian passenger plane in Egypt -- a “global and unprecedented⁷ threat to international peace and security.”

On Sunday, President Barack Obama said the U.S.-led coalition will destroy the IS group.

“We are intensifying⁸ our strategy on all fronts with local partners on the ground. We are going to keep on rolling back ISIL in Iraq and in Syria and take more of their leaders and commanders so that they do not threaten us, and we will destroy this terrorist organization.”

Diane Feinstein is the senior Democratic member of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee.

“We need to be aggressive now,” she said. “ISIL has 30,000 fighters, it’s got a civil infrastructure⁹, it’s got funding, it’s spreading in other countries, and it’s a big, big problem. It’s enormously strong and it has to be dealt with in a very strong manner.”

McGurk said the coalition has carried out operations in Syria and Iraq at the same time as Kurdish and Arab forces. These operations have successfully targeted Islamic State’s main supply route between Raqqa and Mosul, Iraq.

The U.S. Special Forces in northern Syria will organize ground forces to push down on Raqqa, he said. “We couldn’t have done that six months ago.”

He said the coalition will try to stop IS from moving into Turkey from Iraq and Syria. He said it would also work with Iraqi security forces to retake control of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province.

And, he said, the U.S. will try to increase international cooperation to stop larger terrorist networks from sending fighters to help IS.

Words in This Story

isolate – v. to put or keep (someone or something) in a place or situation that is separate from others

recruit – v. to find suitable people and get them to join a company or an organization

unprecedented – adj. not done or experienced before

strategy – n. a careful plan or method for achieving a particular goal -- usually over a long period of time

front – n. an area or field of activity -- usually singular

roll back – expression to return to a previous condition or situation

infrastructure – n. the basic equipment and structures (such as roads and bridges) that are needed for a country, region or organization to function properly

enormous – adj. very great in size or amount

1 deploy   

v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开

参考例句：

• The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
• The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 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。

4 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。

5 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

6 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

7 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

8 intensifying   

v.（使）增强， （使）加剧( intensify的现在分词 )；增辉

参考例句：

• The allies are intensifying their air campaign. 联军部队正加大他们的空战强度。 来自辞典例句
• The rest of the European powers were in a state of intensifying congestion. 其余的欧洲强国则处于越来越拥挤的状态。 来自英汉非文学 - 历史

9 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。