Obaidi: Iraqi government rejects deployment of foreign ground troops in Iraq

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Minister of Defense, Khalid al-Obaidi, stated that the Iraqi government will not allow the deployment of the foreign ground troops in Iraq.

Obaidi stated in a press statement “The ground operations will be done by the Iraq Army only,” noting that “The airstrikes of the US-led Coalition targeted many shelters of the ISIL terrorists in Iraq, but most of the accurate and fruitful airstrikes are done by the Iraqi Air Force.” /End/