Inside the US-led coalition war on ISBAGHDAD -- In a low, windowless building just outside America's sprawling embassy compound in Baghdad, senior military officials from 19 nations work side-by-side, quietly trying to kill jihadists. U.S. military officials repeatedly stress the war is being led by the Iraqis, but without international assistance it's hard to imagine the campaign could have progressed so quickly to this point. "It's their fight, we are supporting them," he said, noting that "they are coming up with the ideas. Everything is going like what we (were) planning for it," Iraqi defense ministry spokesman Brigadier General Tahseen Ibrahim said of current anti-IS operations. While Iraqi military and police are better equipped and trained than they were two years ago, they have also benefitted from more than 10,000 coalition air strikes.

Source: The China Post October 27, 2016 16:12 UTC