Iraq fully briefed on plan to deploy U.S. special forces - Kerry

A still image taken from an October 22, 2015 helmet camera video footage shows members of Kurdish counter-terrorism forces and U.S. special forces in a room with Islamic State flag during a raid on a compound in northern Iraq. REUTERS/Kurdistan Region Security Council via REUTERS TV

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Iraqi government is fully briefed on U.S. plans to deploy American special forces to Iraq and the two governments will consult closely on where they will go and what they will do, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Tuesday Washington would deploy a new force of special operations troops to Iraq to combat Islamic State militants who have seized swathes of Iraq and neighbouring Syria. The group is also known as ISIL and ISIS.