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US Apache Helicopters Join Counter-Islamic State Fight in Iraq

2016-06-15 08:52:31       source:Eurasia Review

June 14, 2016

 

"U.S. Apache helicopters have entered the fight in Iraq against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, US Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters yesterday.

 

'Commanders have used the Apache capability that we positioned there and that [President Barack Obama] authorized them to use some months ago,' Carter said as he traveled to Brussels for meetings with his fellow NATO defense ministers."

 

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