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bemildred

(90,061 posts) Tue Jun 21, 2016, 10:21 AM Jun 2016

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US defense chief: NATO to take part in Daesh war

NATO will contribute AWACS aircraft, train Iraqi forces, Carter says

NATO will take “a more direct role” in the fight against Daesh, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Monday.

“First by contributing AWACS [Airborne Warning and Control System] and conducting training and defense capacity building for Iraq inside Iraq rather than in Jordan,” Carter said at an annual conference of the Center for New American Security think tank.

“Hopefully that will be the start of more to come,” he added.

http://www.miragenews.com/us-defense-chief-nato-to-take-part-in-daesh-war/