US to deploy 3,500 more troops in Middle East amid tensions with Iran

US is deploying roughly 3,500 more troops to the Middle East in response to rising tensions in the region with Iran and one day after a US airstrike killed a top Iranian military commander. The additional troops from the 82nd Airborne Division will be deployed to Iraq, Kuwait and other parts of the region, Xinhua news agency quoted an NBC News report as saying on Friday. The soldiers will join roughly 650 others already deployed to the region and remain for some 60 days, NBC News said in the report citing US officials as saying.