Isis sending about 2,800 additional troops into iraq and spreading them out to half a dozen locations around the country. Until now u. S. Troops have been confined to baghdad and the city of irbil in the north. Now 630 will be shipped out north and west of baghdad to act as advisors to iraqi units fighting isis including in Anbar Province where some of the bloodiest fighting of the iraq war took place. 830 of these new soldiers will be trainers stationed at Iraqi Military bases around the country to train a total of 12 iraqi and kurdish brigades, roughly 54,000 soldiers. The aim is to regenerate Ground Forces that with the help of those american airstrikes are supposed to retake the territory seized by isis earlier this year when the iraqi army broke and ran away. But the americans are expecting international help. The pentagon says other countries in the coalition against isis pledged to send in an additional 700 trainers. The white house insists none of the american troops will engag
The King’s Speech contains 21 new pieces of legislation including proposals to introduce tougher sentencing laws, a ban on the sale of cigarettes and measures to increase oil production in the North Sea.