Iraq Turns To UN For Military Aid, After U.S. Reportedly Declines Request To Bomb Jihadists -- Haaretz/Reuters/DPA
Request for military equipment and air power comes as U.S., Turkey mull how to address conflict with militants.
Iraqi Ambassador to France Fareed Yasseen called on the United Nations Security Council to approve extra military aid for Baghdad, including air and drone support, when it meets in New York later in the day.
The request for military aid follows a report in the New York Times that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked the U.S. President Barack Obama's administration to bomb the jihadists, and was turned down.
Yasseen said as far as he knew the Iraqi government had not yet asked the United States to launch air strikes on Islamist militants who appeared to be marching towards Baghdad, adding Iraqi special forces were now stabilizing the situation north of the capital.
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