Islamic State militants on Wednesday attacked a training camp in Iraq for fighters battling the extremist group, killing three Iraqi Sunni fighters and wounding 10 people, including four of their Turkish trainers, officials said.
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Carter’s stop in Iraq follows his visit to Turkey, where he urged more Turkish air and ground support for the U.S.-led coalition and pressed Turkey to better secure its border to help prevent fighters from going into Syria.
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Carter’s visit, his second as Pentagon chief, came amid reports that Washington is looking for ways to broaden its military assistance to Iraq, including the possibility of sending in attack helicopters and deploying elite American military teams in Iraq to conduct raids against IS in Iraq and in neighboring Syria.
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Turkey appears to have been coordinating the deployment with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), though they too deny providing Turkey with any authorization for a deployment. President Barack Obama’s recent decision to dispatch about 50 US special forces to Iraq met a lukewarm reaction in Baghdad, even though the USA insisted it coordinated all its military actions with Iraq’s government.
Kurdish forces last month retook the town of Sinjar from Islamic State, cutting the main road between Mosul and Raqqa.
Carter said MacFarland and Abadi believe there is no military need for the Apaches now.
Though officials believe the campaign has had an impact, a senior USA official said it was too soon to say how much Islamic State’s oil revenues had been choked off. But he said they were able to eventually regain the territory and beat back the insurgents.
In Syria, earlier efforts to train rebels stumbled and the United States has instead opted to support Kurdish and Syrian Arab groups with a mix of ammunition drops and air strikes.
“The Vice President reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to Iraqi sovereignty and territorial integrity and called on Turkey to do the same by withdrawing any military forces from Iraqi territory that have not been authorized by the Iraqi government”, the statement said. “I think we are on the verge of breaking the back of Daesh”, he said, using an Arabic acronym for the terror group.
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Details of the plan have not been disclosed, and US officials haven’t said when they may deploy to Iraq.
