Reuters: Washington will send 1800 more troops to Iraq
Reuters: Washington will send 1800 more troops to Iraq
2016/1/14 9:55
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the Reuters news agency reported that the United States plans to send 1800 more US troops to Iraq.
Reuters pointed out that these soldiers were from the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army and will be sent in the next few months to train Iraqi forces mainly.
The US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced yesterday during a meeting with soldiers this band that “the US special force currently in Iraq and is preparing to work with the Iraqi forces to target the organization Daash.
“The US President Barack Obama announced plans on the seventh of November last to double the number of US troops in Iraq to more than 3,000 by adding 1,500 military personnel to train nine brigades of the Iraqi army and three brigades belonging to the Peshmerga forces .
As a spokesman for the international coalition Colonel Steve Warren said that by the fourth of January was the United States about 2140 military personnel in Iraq, including 800 guarding the American individuals and enterprises and the rest and the number 1340 advising Iraqi troops fighting “Daash” or are training Iraqi soldiers.
The head Minister Haider al-Abadi, denied most of the time, the Iraqi government request of any State to send ground troops to Iraq as part of the war on Daash terrorist gangs “returned” Send any country to ground troops fighting in accordance with hostile and deal with it on that basis.
“It is said that US troops carried out with the participation of several Kurdish forces landings on air Daash sites in the southwest province of Hawija Krkk.anthy
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