Hakim renews rejection of foreign ground troops in Iraq

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The head of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, Ammar al-Hakim, said “The Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) will not be eliminated through air strikes but through direct combat.”

He renewed rejecting the deployment of foreign troops in Iraq.

“We are able to defeat ISIL, he added. /End/