'US-led coalition troops assisting Kurds in new offensive'

<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #606060; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqhvw2dueX2aT2M3qGLWrg1GTFEmjPI0tSyyXJ4kf-oav9Ph9Vc-q4mimJrQ1LieUbs_H2O9erm75-rGsAim9iqpsNZvxpnK-W7gsDd4TXs2kehNy9H55Z8ORuAXM1Ni1QU_2kqEtCCZg/s1600/l_106888_115449_updates.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: transparent;"><img border="0" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqhvw2dueX2aT2M3qGLWrg1GTFEmjPI0tSyyXJ4kf-oav9Ph9Vc-q4mimJrQ1LieUbs_H2O9erm75-rGsAim9iqpsNZvxpnK-W7gsDd4TXs2kehNy9H55Z8ORuAXM1Ni1QU_2kqEtCCZg/s640/l_106888_115449_updates.jpg" width="640" /></a>BAGHDAD: Servicemen from the US-led coalition are assisting Kurdish Peshmerga forces in a new offensive in Iraq that aims to retake a handful of villages from Daesh (Islamic State) east of their Mosul stronghold, a coalition spokesman said.</strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #606060; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> Soldiers were seen loading armored vehicles outside the village of Hassan Shami, a few miles east of the frontline, a Reuters correspondent reported. They told people present not to take photographs.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #606060; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> They spoke in English but their nationality was not clear. Reuters had earlier reported that they were American but this could not be confirmed officially.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #606060; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> "US and coalition forces are conducting advise and assist operations to help Kurdish Peshmerga forces," US Army Colonel Steve Warren, the spokesman for the US-led coalition in Baghdad told Reuters, commenting on the ground deployment of coalition soldiers seen near the battle front.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #606060; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> He said he could not confirm which country those seen by Reuters were from.</div>

'US-led coalition troops assisting Kurds in new offensive'

BAGHDAD: Servicemen from the US-led coalition are assisting Kurdish Peshmerga forces in a new offensive in Iraq that aims to retake a handf...

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