U.S. Said to Rebuff Iraqi Request to Strike Militants
Posted on AllSides June 12th, 2014
From The Right
As the threat from Sunni militants in western Iraq escalated last month, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki secretly asked the Obama administration to consider carrying out airstrikes against extremist staging areas, according to Iraqi and American officials.
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