Carter’s stop in Iraq follows his visit to Turkey, where he urged more Turkish air and ground support for the U.S.-led coalition and pressed Turkey to better secure its border to help prevent fighters from going into Syria.
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The Iraqi government says they are not welcome and must withdraw. “And I also wanted to emphasize to you, the respect for sovereignty and for Iraq’s territorial sovereignty is a principle that the United States strongly supports in every context”.
“An additional and extremely risky factor promoting global tensions is the unlawful presence of the Turkish armed forces on Iraqi territory near the city of Mosul, which arrived there without a request and approval of the legitimate government of Iraq”, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
“As we’ve begun to impact their ability to make money through things like oil … what we’ve seen is that the fines that they impose on the civilian population … have gone up”, the official said.
American special forces operatives have also been offered in a bid to “accelerate the campaign to defeat” ISIS. The Pentagon said the withdrawal wouldn’t decrease the USA military’s ability to strike targets in Syria.
The operation in Ramadi is an important test of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s ability to muster government force against the well-armed extremist organization, and of President Obama’s strategy for relying on local partners to defeat a viral militant ideology that has spawned affiliates from Libya to Afghanistan.
The focus in recent days has been the battle in Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar province, which was taken by IS militants. “Iraqi forces have been preparing to retake the city, but so far the progress has been slow”.
They also hope it will demonstrate the ability of up Iraq’s official security forces to succeed without the help of Shiite paramilitary forcesbacked by Iran. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government rules.
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Official Ankara has announced many times that Turkey does not plan to take out its troops from northern Iraq.
