“The worldwide community – including our allies and partners – has to step up before another attack like Paris”, US defence chief Ashton Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, referring to a militant assault with guns and bombs that killed 130 people.
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“These things take time, Ramadi is a very hard environment”, he said, adding that it took US forces six months to “take and stabilize Ramadi” from al-Qaida, the Islamic State’s precursor.
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White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he would not second-guess the decisions made in Los Angeles or { New York New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said: “It’s important – very important – not to overreact in situations like this”.
A USA defense official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the US advisers would be prepared to provide advice to Iraqi security forces on how to move through the center of Ramadi over the next several weeks.
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USA airstrikes in recent days killed an estimated 350 Islamic State fighters holed up in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, an American military spokesman said Thursday, suggesting the extremists lost as much as half of their defending force. “In the medium-term, by seeming to Americanize the conflicts in Iraq and Syria, we could well turn those fighting ISIL or inclined to resist their rule into fighting us instead”. IS fighters captured Ramadi in May in a major setback for Iraqi troops. The $500-million program had only a handful of trained Syrian fighters left.
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Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, one of the fiercest critics of Obama’s strategy to fight the militants, missed the hearing with Carter.
Last week, Gen. Joseph Dunford told the House Armed Services Committee, “We have not contained [ISIS]”, but then went on to say they’ve been contained “tactically” in areas since 2010.
“Putting large numbers of USA troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria would play directly into the ISIL narrative we are working to defeat – potentially providing our enemies a propaganda victory that could be exploited for recruiting and fundraising purposes”, Reed 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. “So in the end, while we can enable them, we cannot substitute for them”, Carter said. Lindsey Graham pressed his case for a more expansive authorization of military force for the USA effort against ISIS. And last week, Carter said the US will send special-operations troops to Iraq that, “over time”, will conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence, and attempt to capture Islamic State leaders.
Carter also said he wished that the Sunni Arab countries of the Persian Gulf would “do more” to combat the IS group.
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