ARBIL, Iraq: Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said during a visit to Kurdistan on Friday that the autonomous region’s peshmerga force was a model for the rest of Iraq in its fight against Jihadists.The US defence secretary, on the second day of his first visit to Iraq since taking office earlier
By our correspondents
July 25, 2015
ARBIL, Iraq: Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said during a visit to Kurdistan on Friday that the autonomous region’s peshmerga force was a model for the rest of Iraq in its fight against Jihadists. The US defence secretary, on the second day of his first visit to Iraq since taking office earlier this year, praised the efforts of what is the region’s de facto army.
