Hundreds of US marines deployed to Syria

Hundreds of additional US soldiers have arrived in Syria to help local forces drive ISIL out of their self-declared capital, Raqqa. It marks a new escalation in America’s war against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant

Hundreds of additional US soldiers have arrived in Syria to help local forces drive ISIL out of their self-declared capital, Raqqa.

It marks a new escalation in America’s war against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) in Syria.

Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher reports from Washington DC.