Poll: Americans Remain Divided on Sending Ground Forces to Syria

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Americans remain divided on whether the United States should send ground troops to Syria in an effort to end the war there, a new Gallup poll revealed.

Some 34 percent of Americans said the United States should get "more involved" in Syria, while 30 percent said "less involved," according to the poll, which was released on Friday.

Another 29 percent said "involvement is about right."
Syria has been in a state of war since 2011, with the Syrian Army, which is loyal to the government of President Bashar Assad, fighting several opposition factions and Takfiri terrorist groups.

People gather around the rubble of a hospital supported by Doctors without Borders [MSF] near Maaret al-Numan, in Syria's northern province of Idlib, on February 15, 2016
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had calculated that 355,000 people had been killed in the conflict.

"Syria now has the second-worst image of 21 countries rated in a new Gallup poll, with only North Korea rated worse," the organization said.

"Four out of five Americans now say they have an unfavorable view of Syria, a rise from 74 percent a year ago," the Gallup poll reported.

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