WATCH: US fast-response force sent to Mideast

Troops at Fort Bragg, N.C. from the 82nd Airborne deploy to the Middle East. (AP/Chris Seward)

Hundreds of U.S. soldiers deployed Saturday from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Kuwait to serve as reinforcements in the Middle East amid rising tensions following the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general, the Associated Press reports.

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