“Our air campaign in Syria, we think it’s very effective and we have the data to back that up”, McGurk said. On Tuesday, Iraqi forces seized an IS operations center and the strategical Tamim neighborhood on the outskirts of the city.
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Smoke rises from Islamic State positions following a U.S.-led coalition airstrike in Ramadi, Iraq, on December 2, 2015. He said the United States had spoken to Gulf Cooperation Council leaders at a Camp David summit in the spring about creating a “Sunni Arab combined force” to help in the fight.
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ISIL captured Ramadi, a provincial capital just a short drive west of Baghdad, in May in its biggest conquest since a year ago, and retaking it would be a major victory for Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. “There’s still tough fighting ahead”. It says it now controls more than half the city, including a key military command centre.
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He said he has asked US allies and partners to help out with special operations forces, strike and reconnaissance aircraft and weapons and munitions, he said.
“When Ramadi fell in May, it was the last time we saw Daesh take offensive action here in Iraq in any sort of concerted way”, said Brett McGurk, the official in charge of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State group, speaking to reporters Wednesday from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Kaine lamented that Congress has declined to take up the issue in the 16 months the US has been fighting IS.
The US is willing to do more to assist the Iraqi army in its fight to retake the city of Ramadi from the so-called Islamic State (IS), US Defence Secretary Ash Carter has said. Even the name – “specialized expeditionary targeting force” – is a little bit of a riddle.
“If we fall into the trap of radical Islamic violent extremists baiting us into a ground fight, we’re actually doing exactly what they want us to do”, Selva said. He pointed out that the U.N. Security Council, including Russian Federation, had approved resolutions to provide for delivery of humanitarian aid to Syrians, arguing that a no-fly zone could be enforced under the same resolutions.
In its defence, the White House had argued that sending special operations forces, whose main mission was to train and support local forces, was different from large-scale, ground combat operations. Carter said the Iraqis’ progress this week comes after a “frustratingly long time”. Abu Saleh was killed in late November, US military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said in a videoconference from Baghdad, calling him “one of the most senior and experienced members” of the group’s financial network.
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Those steps come amid high-profile operations claimed by the Islamic State, like last month’s deadly attacks in Paris in Beirut, and apparently inspired by it, like last week’s shooting rampage in San Bernardino, California.
