600 Austrialian soldiers deploy to Iraq to fight ISIS

(IraqiNew.com) On Wednesday, the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott went to the area of Darwin to bid farewell to 600 Australian troops, which will go to Iraq as a part of the international coalition to eliminate the organization of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.

Abbott said in a press statement that ”he will leave the area of ​​Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory to Darwin, where the troops will leave to be deployed in Iraq as a part of an international coalition to deal with the jihadists of the Islamic State.”

Abbott added that “the Royal Australian Air Force handed the fourth batch of weapons to the government forces and their allies in Erbil in northern Iraq.”

The decision to deploy 600 troops came under a military intervention led by the United States against the Islamic state, at the outset of Abbott’s visit to Arnhem Land last Sunday.