Pentagon announces intensifying raids against ISIS in Iraq – sends more advisers to Erbil

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Pentagon announced the intensification of air strikes against terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria “ISIS” organization in Iraq, and sending more American military advisers to Erbil city, the capital of the Kurdistan region.

The Pentagon’s spokesman Admiral, John Kirby said at a news conference that “the raids will be intensified against ISIS sites in Iraq,” but he also said that “those air strikes are not the only capable of elimination the organization from the military side.”

He added that “the coming raids in Iraq need ground troops which of course, will not be Iraqi.”

Kirby added that his country “would send 125 military advisers to Erbil city to prepare reconnaissance missions, surveillance , intelligence and support NATO’s International efforts as well as being part of a plan to secure strategic plans for launching aircraft from the city”.