Iraqi Kurdish officials said the IS shelling in the Bashiqa area was part of a multipronged attack attempting to break through lines held by Peshmerga forces in several separate areas around Mosul.
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John Vela, who was friends with Cinco since the seventh grade, told KRGV-TV, Weslaco, Texas. “He had a lot of ambition”. A one-time high school football star and state champion, McBride kept close ties with his old coaches.
Speaking to reporters after meetings with Iraq Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and others, Carter said that as military conditions change, the U.S.is prepared to increase its contributions to the fight.
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Washington has sought to step up its military campaign against the jihadists, who have killed thousands of non-Sunni people in Iraq and Syria and claimed responsibility for attacks in the West, including shootings and suicide bombings in Paris on November 13 that killed 130 people.
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The attack came amid a dispute between Turkey and Iraq over Ankara’s recent move to send reinforcements for its trainers at the camp.
The decision was announced by U.S. European Command in Germany one day after Defense Secretary Ash Carter visited Incirlik Air Base, where the six F-15 Eagles and six F-15 Strike Eagles arrived last month from their home base in Britain. That request had not been made before Carter’s arrival. 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. But, he said, that doesn’t mean they won’t make a difference “sometime in the future”. They also hope it will demonstrate the ability of up Iraq’s official security forces to succeed without the help of Shiite paramilitary forcesbacked by Iran.
Carter also talked with MacFarland and the Iraqi leaders about the new US plan to deploy a special commando force to Iraq.
“The Vice President reiterated that any foreign military presence in Iraq must be with the full consent of the Iraq government”, read a statement from the White House on December 14.
The deployment of around 150 Turkish troops to the base earlier this month has strained relations between Ankara and Baghdad, which complained to the U.N. Security Council.
“We need to examine how a member of the US-led coalition – the Republic of Turkey – performs goals set by the coalition”, Lavrov said. “It’s kind of hard to inflict support on somebody”, he said.
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The attack on the base where the troops are stationed was part of a broader offensive Islamic State is waging against Kurdish positions north of the city of Mosul, Kurdish military sources told Reuters.
