Fighters belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have attacked a camp in Iraq that trains a force battling the group, killing three Iraqi fighters and wounding 10 people, including four of their Turkish trainers, Iraqi officials say.
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The city of Mosul has been under Islamic State control since past year.
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Backed by USA airstrikes, the Kurdish guerrillas have dislodged the Sunni militants from key towns and road junctions in recent months, and Carter praised their combat skills.
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Germany would keep supporting the Kurdish peshmerga in northern Iraq, which she described as “the most effective ground troops” fighting IS.
Carter said both Abadi and Lt. General Sean MacFarland, who is leading the war on ISIS, both feel right now that the helicopters are not needed for the fight to take Ramadi.
U.S., French, British and Canadian forces launched air strikes against the Islamists, while Kurdish troops fought on the ground.
At least 23 soldiers and tribal fighters were killed in the assault.
Carter said that the initial meetings with the Arabs “bore the fruit that we hoped it would”, and “we have indications that there are more of them, which is what we want as we move further south to Raqqa”.
“This was the hardest punch Isil [IS] had thrown since this summer, and the Peshmerga defeated them”, said Col Steve Warren, a U.S. military spokesman, according to the Washington Post.
Powerful Shia militia Ketaeb Hezbollah also claimed responsibility for the attack via its TV channel Etejah, but did not specify how it managed to shell a base located over 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of the northernmost positions held by federal Kurdish forces and allied militiamen.
“I think we are on the verge of breaking the back of Daesh”, he said, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group. The gear will be enough for about 2,200 fighters, they said.
Four Turkish soldiers were wounded on Wednesday when Islamic State (IS) jihadists fired mortars on a training camp near the Iraqi city of Mosul, a Turkish official and the army said.
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The Iraqi leader, who heads a fractured government that remains deeply suspicious of US intentions, declined Carter’s offer for now, the secretary told reporters after the meeting. He also said his talks with Kurdish President Masoud Barzani revolved around “the future of the campaign, particularly the role that his forces could play in the encirclement and recapture of Mosul”.
