The Pentagon reveals that the US doubled its troop presence in Syria before President Bashar Assad's government was overthrown to combat the Islamic State group.
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The U.S. has previously said 900 troops were in Syria, but Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, announced that 2,000 were there and had been for a while.
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