Islamic State militants fired rockets on Wednesday at a base in northern Iraq where Turkish troops are stationed, Kurdish military sources told Reuters.
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The military said it responded to the attack on the camp with fire of its own, adding that the four wounded Turkish troops had been taken for treatment in Sirnak province, on Turkey’s side of the border.
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The Iraqi security forces, the Kurdish government forces known as the Peshmerga, the Sunni tribes and the popular mobilization troops are at times at odds as they try to battle IS.
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Turkey deployed around 150 troops in the Bashiqa area earlier this month with the stated aim of training an Iraqi militia to fight ISIL.
But the deployment outraged the central Iraqi government in Baghdad, which bitterly complained to Ankara and said it would take the issue to the UN Security Council.
“An additional and extremely risky factor promoting global 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.
Jabbar Yawar, secretary general of the Kurdish peshmerga forces that control the area where the Turkish forces have deployed said ten tanks had been moved from the camp to another existing Turkish base within the autonomous Kurdistan region.
This story has not been edited by Firstpost staff and is generated by auto-feed. Turkey is a member of the coalition, but has not carried out aerial attacks in Iraq. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that Ankara was trying to protect Iraq’s territorial integrity more than anyone else. But Abadi has resisted, arguing foreign forces aren’t needed to fight IS in Iraq.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter has traveled to Iraq on an unannounced visit with directions from President Barack Obama to find new ways to hasten the destruction of the Islamic State group.
The Iraqi government on Tuesday demanded the “complete withdrawal” of Turkish forces from its territory, indicating Ankara’s partial pullout the previous day was not enough.
The Royal Air Force has been attacking the extremist IS group in Iraq since previous year, and Parliament voted December 2 to expand the campaign to Syria.
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Even while urging North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally Turkey to tread lightly in Iraq, the U.S. has been pressing Turkey to step up its involvement in the US-led coalition fighting ISIL.
