US Defense Minister visited Baghdad

baghdad - US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter arrived Monday in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. He comes with US commanders and members of the Iraqi government to discuss how recent successes can be developed against the extremist group Islamic State.

Carter talks in Iraq with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Defense Minister Khaled al-Obaidi. It then goes according to US informants on specific additional military aid that could provide the United States. Very likely also includes more American soldiers in Iraq, they declared.

By American officers and trained by a US coalition aerial-supported Iraqi army recently has the city Hit area to IS recaptured. The Iraqi government Mosul, the largest city in Iraq, which is still in the hands of IS, regarded as the next target. In December recaptured the Iraqi army all the western city of Ramadi.