Iraq forces battle ISIS, extra US troops heading to Anbar

June 11, 2015 23:30

Iraqi forces battled jihadis on several fronts Thursday and were poised to receive the help of 450 extra U.S. troops slated for deployment near Ramadi.

Washington's decision to send more advisers and trainers to Iraq failed however to silence critics who say the White House lacks a strategy to combat ISIS.

A year after a jihadi-led offensive saw the government lose control over swathes of Iraq, military operations to weaken ISIS were experiencing mixed fortunes.

The autonomous Kurdistan region's peshmerga forces pushed south and west of Kirkuk on the back of intensive bombing by Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition warplanes, security officials said.

One of the targets was a bomb-making workshop ISIS had set up after their main car bomb factory in nearby Hawijah was completely levelled in a coalition airstrike last week, one official said.

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