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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Obama okays 450 more troops for Iraq training mission
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS President Barack Obama approves the deployment of up to 450 more US military personnel to Iraq, in a bid to reverse gains by the Islamic State group.
The White House says the forces will take part in an already 3,000-strong US mission to “train, advise and assist” Iraqi army and Sunni tribal fighters.
Recent Islamic State victories in Ramadi in Iraq and Syria’s Palmyra seem to have rubbished Obama’s strategy of depending on US airpower and an amalgam of disparate ground forces to “defeat and degrade” the Islamic State.
Amid the criticism, the White House also announces the “expedited delivery of essential equipment and material” for tribal and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters — in coordination with the central government in Baghdad.
— AFP
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