Wall Street Journal: The United States and Iraq promise to organize an attack against the Islamic state
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Wall Street Journal revealed Thursday that the United States and Iraq promise to an offensive to regain control of Mosul, Iraq's second city of the organization of the Islamic state with summer. He said the US Central Command, Gen. Lloyd Austin, told the newspaper that a group of Kurdish fighters and other forces that received training from the West would be ready to launch an attack in the spring or summer. "If we act on our own or with some of the others who are our allies on the ground things to take place more quickly," he said. "But on the Iraqis to do it themselves." The general said he did not take the decision after the recommendation to keep pace with the American forces to the Iraqis in the attack. The focus of the US air raids on the recently regulated jihadist Mosul. The Kurdish peshmerga forces launched attacks succeeded in restoring the roads of the organization near Mosul in northern Iraq. The connector includes more than a million people, but they are empty now, many of them from the department. The general also told the newspaper that the international coalition against the Islamic state organization made significant progress in its efforts to restore large areas decimated by the organization in the country. Officials at the US Department of Defense confirmed that the raids had killed thousands of jihadists. The Iraqi government has asked for more weapons to strengthen the army, which partially collapsed in the early stages of the war on the organization of the Islamic state.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Wall Street Journal revealed Thursday that the United States and Iraq promise to an offensive to regain control of Mosul, Iraq's second city of the organization of the Islamic state with summer. He said the US Central Command, Gen. Lloyd Austin, told the newspaper that a group of Kurdish fighters and other forces that received training from the West would be ready to launch an attack in the spring or summer. "If we act on our own or with some of the others who are our allies on the ground things to take place more quickly," he said. "But on the Iraqis to do it themselves." The general said he did not take the decision after the recommendation to keep pace with the American forces to the Iraqis in the attack. The focus of the US air raids on the recently regulated jihadist Mosul. The Kurdish peshmerga forces launched attacks succeeded in restoring the roads of the organization near Mosul in northern Iraq. The connector includes more than a million people, but they are empty now, many of them from the department. The general also told the newspaper that the international coalition against the Islamic state organization made significant progress in its efforts to restore large areas decimated by the organization in the country. Officials at the US Department of Defense confirmed that the raids had killed thousands of jihadists. The Iraqi government has asked for more weapons to strengthen the army, which partially collapsed in the early stages of the war on the organization of the Islamic state.
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