Just as Iraq's army, backed by local militias and western war-planes, turns the tide against Islamic State, region's oil price war leaves it searching for money to buy weapons.
Just as it is starting to turn the tide against Isil, Iraq is running out of money.
Behind the front lines of the Iraqi desert, where the Nineveh provincial police are training to retake their homes in and around Mosul, they are short of one thing: weapons.
“We have been regrouped here since the fall of Mosul,” said Major Ayman, standing over his line of men in blue uniforms. “We have been waiting here for five months but we have no weapons.”
The Iraqi armed forces were at the receiving end of withering international criticism following its disastrous performances when Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant swept through western and northern Iraq two years ago.
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Update: Iraq is running out of money to fight ISIS (Hot Air)
WNU Editor: Money is not the only problem that the Iraqi coalition has in fighting the Islamic State .... Disputes Between Anti-Daesh Forces Impede Liberation of Mosul, Iraq (Sputnik)
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IMHO after May or June any delay in wresting Mosul from ISIS is an indictment of the Iran Syria,Iraq, Russian axis.
I am not saying the U.S. under the pusllimanious Obama is doing any better.
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