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The meeting, to
be held on Wednesday, comes as the administration weighs a plan
to increase the number of U.S. special operations forces
deployed to Syria to try to advance recent gains against Islamic
State.
The top U.S. general, Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, has said he is working on options to present to
Obama to increase U.S. forces in Iraq to bolster Iraqi forces
preparing for a major offensive against the militant group in
Mosul.
Obama has held similar meetings, at the Pentagon and at the
State Department, on fighting Islamic State, which holds areas
of Syria and Iraq.
"There's no particular operational reason for him having it
there," White House spokeswoman Jen Friedman told reporters.
"It's just the next in a series of these meetings."
(Reporting by Roberta Rampton Writing by Timothy Gardner;
Editing by James Dalgleish)
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