Saturday, January 3, 2015

US to Train 7,000 Sunni Tribal Militants in Iraq

US to Train 7,000 Sunni Tribal Militants in Iraq

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Iraqi Sunni delegates to visit Washington to ask for arming of Sunni tribal militants
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Basnews  |  Nuwar Faqie
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03.01.2015  16:51
US to train Iraqi Sunni militants
Tags:   Anbar  |  Iraq  |  ISIL  |  ISIS  |  US  |  USA

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The United State government has to train Sunni tribal insurgents of Anbar Province in northern Iraq in order to fight against Islamic State (IS) militants.


In a statement on Friday, Member of Anbar Province Council Mazhar Mullah pointed out, “In the last two days US military officers have started to train 7,000 Sunni tribal militants of Anbar so that they will be ready to fighting against IS militants in the province.”


He continued, “So far 7,000 Sunni tribal rebels of Anbar has been training in military base of Ain al-Assad in Baghdadi Town by the US military officers.”


“They will be trained for a month in order to make them ready to fight against IS militants, who currently controlling some parts of Anbar,” said Mullah.


Moreover, in the mid January of 2015, its expected that Iraqi Sunni delegates from Anbar province to visit US Capital, Washington to ask US for arming Sunni tribal militants of the province in battling against IS insurgents.


Sunni tribal leaders have often asked US before to arm their rebels to free IS-controlled areas in Iraq.


Furthermore, Nineveh Governor Atheel Nujeifi has previously pointed out that they are working on training almost 20,000 people of Mosul city in northern Iraq to participate in liberating the city and province from IS insurgents.

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