ANKARA/ERBIL, Iraq Islamic State militants fired rockets at a base in northern Iraq where Turkish troops are stationed on Wednesday, as they launched a wave of attacks against Kurdish forces, officials said.
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In Washington, Colin Kahl, national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, condemned the IS attack on the training camp and said the United States was working with its partners in Iraq to confirm the details.
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A key USA priority is for Turkey to finally close a stretch of its border with Syria that IS controls on the Syrian side, denying the extremist group a crucial corridor for funneling foreign fighters into Syria.
There are growing signs of USA moves to step up its military campaign against the group, which has claimed responsibility for attacks in the West, including bombings and shootings which killed 130 people in Paris last month.
But Iraq’s Prime Minster Haider al-Abadi has insisted his armed forces are winning the battle against ISIS – or Daesh – and has signalled his reluctance to encourage the U.S. armed forces to become further involved in the country’s ongoing war. The small advisory teams wouldn’t be on the front lines, but would allow them to provide better planning advice and coordination for the Iraqi units, said Warren.
Speaking to reporters traveling with him, Carter said the US wants to use the Apache helicopters when they can “make a distinctive difference and have a strategic effect”.
US officials have in the past expressed frustration at how long it has taken Iraqi security forces to take back the city, but MacFarland said that the Iraqis had made significant progress in dislodging Islamic State. Called an “expeditionary targeting force”, the special operations troops would be used to increase the pressure on the insurgents. “It’s kind of hard to inflict support on somebody”.
Abadi faces a delicate domestic political situation as influential Iranian-backed Shi’ite groups reject any enhanced USA military presence in Iraq.
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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.
