Pentagon decides to withdraw half of its fighter jets from the base “Incirlik”
Pentagon decides to withdraw half of its fighter jets from the base “Incirlik”
12/17/2015 10:02 GMT
Agencies – US Defense Department announced Thursday that it is currently working on the withdrawal of 12 fighter jets stationed in southern Turkey, which used a starting point for the bombing of sites in Iraq and Syria point “Incirlik” base.
She said Pentagon spokeswoman Laura torrent, “Although such a withdrawal, the international US-led coalition aircraft will intensify over the next few months, raids from the Incirlik base,” adding that “12 fighter-type (ie -10) is still currently in Incirlik, to along with other planes belonging to other countries in the coalition. ”
The coalition aircraft in nearly 16 months of bombing sites to organize Daash in Syria and Iraq.
It is interesting that the announcement of the withdrawal of these aircraft comes a day after a visit by US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter to a Turkish al-Qaida, and after days of repeated promises by US President Barack Obama as “will intensify the war on Daash”, pledging to “restore the land controlled by the organization in the Middle East and killed -led “, and that in the wake of the attack San Bernardino, Calif., which was adopted” Daash “earlier this month.
Obama was revealed that he had asked his defense minister to go to the Middle East for more than military support in the fight against the organization.
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