Those concerns could affect whether or not Iraqi leaders agree to allow the U.S.to send Apache attack helicopters and more troops into the fight.
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Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who met with Abadi on Wednesday in Baghdad, emerged from the meetings to say there was no agreement about accepting more USA help. He added that neither Abadi nor Lieutenant General Sean B. MacFarland, overseeing USA operations against Islamic State, believe the helicopters are needed right now to win back Ramadi.
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The U.S. will deliver body armor, helmets, machine guns, armored Humvees, sniper rifles and equipment to locate or disable home-made bombs, U.S. officials said. “So we try to provide support”. Iraqi commanders say the prestige of the country’s army, following last year’s humiliating collapse, is at stake as they seek to fully recapture the city by year’s end. And those assets should only be used when they can make a critical, strategic contribution to the fight.
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A senior defense official said the US forces concluded that there were substantial numbers of Syrian fighters who would be willing to work with the United States to isolate Raqqa.
The center of the city remains under Islamic State control, which Iraqi intelligence estimates number between 250 and 300 fighters, with Iraqi military officials saying that militants are losing the initiative and suffering food and ammunition shortages after government forces cut their last supply line into the city last month. “Everything we do, and the coalition does, in Iraq is subject to the principal of Iraqi sovereignty and therefore his permission”.
For months, Obama administration officials have been hoping that Abadi will succeed in securing the support of Iraqi Sunnis, distinguishing himself from former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
That reluctance also could hold up any move to embed US military advisers with Iraqi Brigade headquarters.
“An additional and extremely risky factor promoting worldwide tensions is the unlawful presence of the Turkish armed forces on Iraqi territory near the city of Mosul, which arrived there without a request and approval of the legitimate government of Iraq”, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Some 59 Islamic State fighters were killed. “And if this is all they’ve got, things are going to begin to get worse and worse for this enemy”, Warren said.
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The focus in recent days has been the battle in Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar province, which was taken by IS militants.
