Carter’s visit, his second as Pentagon chief, came amid reports that Washington is looking for ways to broaden its military assistance to Iraq, including the possibility of sending in attack helicopters and deploying elite American military teams in Iraq to conduct raids against IS in Iraq and in neighboring Syria.
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According to the Turkish side, they are planning to attack Mosul which is under the control of IS extremists and also train the Kurdish Peshmerga forces for fighting against the “Islamic State”.
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“The position of the government of Iraq is still the same: Turkey must pull out this force to the global borders and not reorganize its deployment”, Saad al-Hadithi told Reuters. Iraqi forces have been preparing to try to take the city back, encircling it. But progress has been slow. The United States has around 3,500 troops in Iraq now.
But Turkey has insisted the added troops were needed to protect its forces from attacks by ISIL – a concern that gained new relevance on Wednesday when ISIL militants attacked the camp, killing three Iraqi Sunni fighters and wounding several Turkish trainers.
Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, is a Sunni Muslim hardline group that has seized swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq. Iraqi commanders say the prestige of the country’s army, following last year’s humiliating collapse, is at stake as they seek to fully recapture the city by year’s end.
Carter said MacFarland and Abadi believe there is no military need for the Apaches now.
That reluctance also could hold up any move to embed US military advisers with Iraqi Brigade headquarters. After Carter announced the new special operations force, Shi’ite militias pledged to fight any such US deployment.
But details of the plan have not been disclosed, and USA officials haven’t said when they may deploy to Iraq.
The US State Department had said earlier that the conflict was a just a “dispute between Turkey and Iraq” over “a small number of troops”. “It’s kind of hard to inflict support on somebody”, he said.
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Speaking to troops on Tuesday at Incirlik air base in Turkey, which the United States and its allies are using for the air campaign against Islamic State, Carter acknowledged that the threat posed by Islamic State had grown beyond the Middle East.
