“We don’t see any evidence that the Turkish government is purchasing oil from ISIL”, Adam Szubin, US Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said during a White House briefing on Wednesday.
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Abadi expressed confidence to Carter that Iraqi troops would soon retake Ramadi from ISIS and position the Iraqi military to move on Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, which has been under ISIS control since the summer of 2014. But the arrival of the additional troops earlier this month sparked an uproar in Baghdad, which said they were unauthorized and demanded their immediate withdrawal.
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But he stressed that all United States actions in Iraq would be done with Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi’s approval, respecting Iraqi sovereignty.
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In this image made from video posted on a militant social media account affiliated with the Islamic State group late Saturday, April 11, 2015, purports to show militants destroying the ancient Iraqi Assyrian city of Nimrud, a site dating back to the 13th century B.C., near the militant-held city of Mosul, Iraq.
At first, Ankara claimed that it had sent its military forces to northern Iraq because of a threat presented by IS to Turkish military instructors training anti-terrorist forces in the area. He and other US officials have been working the phones for days, urging Iraq and Turkey to resolve their dispute, the White House said.
In the United States, an unnamed official linked to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s office condemned the attack on Turkish troops, calling on the Iraqi and Turkish governments to de-escalate tensions over the presence of Ankara’s forces in the north of the country.
Turkey said this week it had withdrawn an unspecified contingent from the base, but the Iraqi government responded by demanding a complete pullout.
The two countries at times differ on how to wage the war, and any military support “has to be consistent with the way Iraqi security forces fight”, said MacFarland, speaking to reporters at the Baghdad International Airport.
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In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, photo, released by the U.S. Air Force, a pair of U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle flies over northern Iraq, after conducting airstrikes in Syria. Turkey’s decision earlier in the year to allow the USA fighter jets to use Incirlik Air Base, not far from the border with Syria, had been touted as a major advancement that would allow the U.S.to move more quickly against IS targets.
