U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said on Wednesday that U.S. training efforts in Iraqi security forces against the extremist group Islamic State (IS) had so far fallen short of what the U.S. military had expected.
The addition of up to 450 U.S. military personnel and the opening of a training base in Iraq are an adjustment to the campaign against the Islamic State (IS), the Pentagon said on Thursday.
It is not yet clear whether a new U.S. plan to send hundreds of troops to Iraq to help defeating the Islamic State (IS) militant group was the right move to give a push to the Iraqi forces on the battleground, but some Iraqis here met President Barack Obama's new strategy with scepticism.
Car bomb attacks killed at least 28 government-backed militiamen and wounded 36 others in Iraq on Tuesday, a security source said.
A suicide car bomb detonated at a military base in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Monday, killing at least 38 members of the security force and wounding 25 others, a provincial source told Xinhua.
U.S. and Iraqi authorities have exchanged accusations on the fall of the city of Ramadi into the hands of the Islamic State (IS) militants, reflecting the failure of U.S. policy in dealing with global terrorism.
A total of 28 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed Monday in the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and clashes with the Iraqi security forces in the province of Anbar, a provincial security source said.
The U.S. strategy of fighting Islamic State (IS) is facing a major setback after the terror group took control of the Iraqi city of Ramadi.
Iraqi security forces on Sunday continued advance and clashes with the Islamic State (IS) militants in the northern central province of Salahudin, while U.S. -led coalition and Iraqi aircraft pounded suspected IS positions in Anbar province, a provincial official and security sources said.
The fall of Ramadi, capital of Iraq' s largest Anbar province, to the hands of Islamic State (IS) militants is a big blow to both the U.S. policy and the Iraqi security forces who originally were preparing to free the territories held earlier by the extremist group.
An air bombardment against Islamic State (IS) by the U.S.-led coalition has seriously wounded the terror group's leader, sparking a change in management at the top that has put the radicals on the defensive, experts said.
The liberation of Salahudin's provincial capital city of Tikrit weakened the Islamic State (IS) militant group, but heavy and bloody battles are widely expected to free Iraq's largest province of Anbar and Mosul in the north.
The United States on Monday expressed concerns about alleged use of chlorine gas by the extremist group the Islamic States (IS) against Kurdish forces.
The U.S. military top officer arrived in Baghdad Monday to discuss military cooperation as Iraqi forces freed the town of al-Alam in the Salahudin province from the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
The Islamic State (IS) militants burned up to 43 people alive, in Iraq's western province of Anbar, a provincial security source said Saturday.
The bilateral trade value of Iran and Iraq has reached 12 billion U.S. dollars, Head of Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber of Commerce Yahya Al-e Eshaq said here on Sunday, according to semi-official Fars news agency.
Iran and Iraq as two neighbors should stay in the same front and cooperate in fighting terrorism, the visiting Iraqi Defense Minister Khalid al-Obeidi said here on Tuesday.
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