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IS attacks Turkish military camp in Iraq
Since he took power over a year ago, the Iraqi leader also has had to balance assistance from Iraq’s allies, including the United States and Iran, and ensure that he is not seen as too reliant on the West.
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Peshmerga forces repelled coordinated attacks by Islamic State in Nawaran, Bashiqa, Tal Aswad, Khazr and Zardik, the Kurdistan Regional Security Council (KRSC) said.
The former governor of the northern Ninevah province, Atheel al-Nujaifi, told The Associated Press that the camp had come under mortar fire “for hours” on Wednesday and that the shelling was continuing.
Washington has said it wants to deploy consultants and attack helicopters to help the Iraqi security forces in wresting control in the city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad that belong to the Islamic state.
But major population centers remain in Islamic State hands, including the Syrian city of Raqqa, allowing the group to maintain a revenue base and possibly plan attacks outside its territory.
The additional deployment of Turkish troops to the Bashika camp near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul earlier this month started angry exchanges between the two capitals.
Government-owned Iraqi media said that Carter would discuss the campaign with Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi.
Turkey has welcomed the formation in Saudi Arabia of a 34-nation military coalition to fight terrorism.
The Iraq government is under domestic pressure to resist the presence of foreign troops in the country.
Carter first suggested providing attack helicopters and more combat advisers in the context that battle, saying more US troops and firepower could help tip the fight in favor of Iraq. But Abadi has resisted, arguing foreign forces aren’t needed to fight IS in Iraq.
The decision was announced by U.S. European Command in Germany one day after Defense Secretary Ash Carter visited Incirlik Air Base, where the six F-15 Eagles and six F-15 Strike Eagles arrived last month from their home base in Britain.
In a bid to placate Baghdad, an unspecified contingent of the Turkish troops this week pulled out of the camp and headed northwards. Biden welcomed that initial withdrawal, but insisted it must continue.
More than 3,500 US troops now are in Iraq, many of them ordered to stay inside secure Iraqi and Kurdish military facilities and limited to providing local fighters with training and advice.
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Turkey is widely perceived among Iraq’s Shiite majority as complicit with IS, and Shiite militias have advocated using force against Turkish troops should they refuse to withdraw.