Announced the US Department of Defense Pentagon, create a separate US military base in northern Iraq, it is the first since the return of US troops to Iraq in two thousand and fourteen.
At a news summary, he said a spokesman for the international coalition Col. Steve Warren, said that the establishment of Fire Beers Bell base, in the town drunk, which lies between the cities of Mosul and Kirkuk in northern Iraq, came to provide protection to Iraqi forces and adviser to the international coalition, stressing that the presence of power at the base was at the invitation of The Iraqi government and in coordination with them.
Between Warren, that the population of the Marine force in al-Qaida is less than two hundred fighters, and they will stay there for the survival of American advisers in a drunken, stressing at the same time, that their role is limited to only protection, and are not allowed to engaged in the absence of a security threat.