Iraq has asked Washington to send additional trainers and advisors ahead of the battle to retake second city Mosul from the ISIL group, the premier’s office said Wednesday. Iraq has requested “a final increase in the number of American trainers and advisors to support the heroic Iraqi security forces in ...
The number of troops on the ground in Iraq as part of a US-led coalition against the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group now stands at some 8,000, a US official announced on Tuesday. “The number of coalition forces in Iraq is now 8,000 personnel, ...
