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Iraqi Air Force Conducting 60 Percent of Sorties, PM Abadi Says

  • January, 09, 2016 - 16:21
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Iraqi Air Force Conducting 60 Percent of Sorties, PM Abadi Says

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - More than 60 percent of sorties against ISIL in Iraq are carried out by the nation's air forces, Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said Saturday.

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Iraq's army last month scored its first success against ISIL when it recaptured, with air support from the coalition, the city center of Ramadi. Until then, it was the popular that were leading the fight against the hardline militants.

Speaking at a ceremony in Baghdad broadcast live on state TV, Abadi said Iraq still needed foreign assistance for air cover, training and armament, but not for ground operations.

Abadi renewed his call for Turkey to withdraw troops deployed in the region of Mosul, the largest city in northern Iraq which has been under ISIL control since 2014.

"This is a frank invitation to Turkey our neighbor to pull out its forces from Iraq," he said. "We will deploy every effort permitted by our rights and international law to make them leave," he added, Reuters reported.

Turkey deployed around 150 troops last month at the Bashiqa base, where it is training an Iraqi militia to fight ISIL, citing heightened security risks.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan Friday said Turkish troops repelled an ISIL attack on the base, killing 18 militants, adding that this incident vindicated the presence of the protection force. The Iraqi army later denied that any clash happened recently between Turkish forces and the militants.

 
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