U.S. trains Iraqi national guard units in all 19 provinces

By World Tribune on December 3, 2014   BB Americas, BB Middle East, Exclusives, Iraq, Mideast, Stateside, Terrorism, Top Stories, U.S. Media, Washington  

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has led a Western program to form and train a national guard for Iraq. Officials said the U.S. military was training Sunnis and Shi’ites to form a national guard to protect against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. They said 2,000 Sunnis have already been trained by […]