Khaled al-Obeidi

The United States will deploy additional forces to Iraq and make Apache attack helicopters available to support the country's troops, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said April 18 in Baghdad.

Turkey said in a written statement on Dec. 8 that the number of its troops training volunteers near Mosul would be set following talks between the two countries' defense ministers, in a bid to defuse three days of tension between the two neighboring countries. 

Thousands of Iraqi forces have laid siege to jihadists holed up in Tikrit but the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) shrugged off setbacks by welcoming Nigeria's Boko Haram group into its "caliphate".
      
After making major gains in and around the city Wednesday, commanders were confident that Baghdad's biggest victory yet against ISIL was only a matter of time.

BAGHDAD - Serbian Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic conferred with his Iraqi counterpart Khaled al-Obeidi concerning the cooperation between the two ministries on Wednesday.

The goal of Gasic's visit to Iraq is to define the priorities and tangible cooperation projects in the defence sector, the Serbian Ministry released.

BAGHDAD - Serbia's Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic met in Baghdad on Wednesday with Iraqi Defence Minister Khaled al-Obeidi to discuss cooperation between the two countries and their defence ministries.

Serbian defense minister visits Iraq

BAGHDAD -- Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic has conferred with Chairman of Iraqi Parliament's Committee on Security and Defense Hakim Al-Zamili.

They spoke about "security challenges within his working visit to Iraq on Tuesday, and they agreed that terrorism and religious extremism constitute the greatest threats in this context."

BAGHDAD - Serbian Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic conferred with Chairman of Iraqi Parliament's Committee on Security and Defense Hakim Al-Zamili concerning security challenges within his working visit to Iraq on Tuesday, and they agreed that terrorism and religious extremism constitute the greatest threats in this context.

Millions of Shiite Muslim pilgrims defied the threat of jihadist attacks and thronged the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala for the climax of annual Arbaeen mourning rituals on Dec. 13.