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Singapore to deploy planners to support ISIS fight

Xinhua, January 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Singapore Armed Forces will further deploy planners to support the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen said on Monday.

Speaking in parliament, Ng said that the planners will be deployed to the Combined Joint Task Force Headquarters and the Combined Air Operations Center, and a site-survey team will prepare for the subsequent deployment of its KC-135 tanker.

Ng said that it was still "premature to determine if there would be further requests" for more support from Singapore.

As part of its involvement in the coalition since last November, the Singapore Armed Forces has sent a needs assessment and survey team, and a liaison officer to support the fight against the ISIS. Endi