WASHINGTON. Feb 20 (Interfax) - United States Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford did not discuss issues relating to the deployment of U.S. troops in Syria with Russia's Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff Valery Gerasimov, the Pentagon said.
"They never discussed current or future deployment of US troops to Syria," John Fage, a representative of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, told Interfax on Friday.
Earlier U.S. media reports said that the Pentagon could ask President Donald Trump to send ground troops to Syria. This information has not been officially confirmed.
Meanwhile, there has been press speculation that a possible deployment of U.S. ground troops to Syria and Russia's concern with these reports may have been discussed at a meeting between Dunford and Gerasimov in Baku a day earlier.