USA today news: USA will not provide ground military campaign in Iraq

USA today news: USA will not provide ground military campaign in Iraq

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Obama: The United States will not spend another ground military campaign  in Iraq

The American president said the United States will fight militants Islamic state  together with a coalition of countries that have expressed a willingness to support the efforts of America.

Live news, NEW YORK, 17 September. The United States will not spend in Iraq another ground military campaign within the counter group Islamic state, said President Barack Obama.

Speaking at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa (Florida), where based Central Command (CENTCOM), U.S. Armed Forces, Obama said that “does not give the order for the participation of American troops” in a ground operation in Iraq. He noted that the United States will have air support and other assistance to the Iraqis in the fight against militants Islamic State but will not be “doing for the Iraqis what they can do for themselves,” he said. Resolute struggle against the terrorist threat, which currently represents the Islamic State, the USA will work together with a coalition of countries that “have expressed willingness to support these efforts of America,” continued the head of the White House. According to him, today more than 40 countries have agreed to be part of this coalition.

We will not fight this fight alone, which is why we have spent so much time in recent efforts to form a coalition, “- said the president. He stressed that this battle depends primarily on the Iraqis themselves, and the United States are ready to help them in this military appliances and air strikes on militant positions of Islamic state. Press Secretary of the White House Josh Ernest, told reporters that the Pentagon possible requests for the use of United States Army in combat operations against the terrorist group the Islamic State will be investigated “individually”. . According to him, the American soldiers “will not personally fight with the enemy” or to participate directly in ground operations against the Islamic State.

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