US accelerates military equipment delivery to Iraq to help it fight terrorism

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The US is accelerating its deliveries of military equipment to Iraq to help it fight Islamic militants who have overrun Fallujah and entrenched themselves in other parts of the country, the White House has announced.

Joe Biden, the US vice-president, spoke with the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, on Monday to express support for Iraq’s fight against al-Qaeda-linked militants, a message Biden repeated in another call with Osama al-Nijaifi, speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, the White House said.”

The vice-president expressed concern for those Iraqis who are suffering at the hands of terrorists and praised the recent security co-operation between Iraqi security forces and local and tribal forces in Anbar province,” the statement concluded.