U.S. And Iraq To Cooperate In Stemming Al Qaeda Attacks

U.S. And Iraq To Boost Cooperation On Spillover From Syria -- Reuters

* Sale of $2.6 billion air-defense system to help Iraq control skies
* Washington urges political outreach to Iraq's Sunnis

WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (Reuters) - The United States and Iraq agreed on Thursday to boost cooperation to keep Iran from flying weapons over Iraq to Syria, and to curb the radicalization of young Iraqis and other spillover effects from the Syrian conflict.

U.S. help for Iraq will include intelligence- and information-sharing in the short term, followed by a planned sale of a $2.6 billion integrated air defense system and F-16 fighter jets, a senior U.S. official said.

The agreement came during talks in Washington led by Secretary of State John Kerry and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari, which took place amid a period of escalating bloodshed that has taken the monthly death toll in Iraq to its highest levels in five years.

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