U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter spoke with Iraqi leaders Wednesday about developing a plan to defeat the Islamic State group in the country.
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A US deployment of Apache attack helicopters to provide close air support in the Ramadi fight is dependent on a formal request from Abadi.
Parts of Ramadi still under Islamic State control
Beyond statements from the Iraqi government and from its media outlets, few have claimed the city is fully liberated. Anbar, including Ramadi , was a major focus of that campaign at the height of the 2003-2011 US war in Iraq.
“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.
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A U.S. diplomatic source said the main goal of Carter s visit was to meet United States soldiers to thank them for their contribution to the air campaign. USA officials fear their involvement could create a backlash in Sunni Muslim areas and fuel another sectarian bloodletting like the civil war that ravaged Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
“Everything we do, and the coalition does, in Iraq is subject to the principal of Iraqi sovereignty and therefore his permission”. “There are a number of complex relationships that the government of Iraq has to tend to”. In Iraq, U.S. officials have expressed frustration at how long it has taken Iraqi security forces to take back Ramadi.
The Obama administration has been talking for days about “accelerating” the fight against IS, but that effort is complicated because there is some Iraqi reluctance to having a greater USA footprint in the country.
“Coalition aircraft operating from Incirlik are expected to increase and continue to increase in the coming months”, European Command said in a statement.
Turkey is widely perceived in Iraq’s Shiite majority as complicit with Islamic State, and Shiite militias have advocated using force against Turkish troops should the diplomatic track fail. It will be created to better capitalize on intelligence in order to target, capture and kill Islamic State leaders.
“That does not mean that they won’t make a difference some time in the future”, Carter said.
But on Tuesday, Iraqi security forces temporarily lost control of that bridge, Warren said.
Ten thousand members of the Iraqi security forces now surround Ramadi.
Carter’s visit, his third stop on an end-of-year Middle East tour, comes as Iraqi forces seek to push deeper into Ramadi, the capital of the western Anbar province, which has been in the grip of Islamic State fighters since May.
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In Syria, U.S.-backed rebels are hoping to isolate Raqqa, the Islamic State’s defacto capital there.
