US-Led Coalition Against Islamic State Trains 3,800 Iraq Security Forces

The anti-Daesh US-led coalition is currently training almost 4,000 Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), Operations Inherent Resolve spokesman Col. Steve Warren said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The US-led coalition against the Daesh terrorist group is presently training almost 4,000 Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), the biggest number in has trained at once so far, Operations Inherent Resolve spokesman Col. Steve Warren said on Wednesday.

"We continue to build partner capacity through our training sites across Iraq," Warren stated. "Today, this very day there are 3,800 Iraqi army soldiers in training which is the most we’ve had in training at one time to date."

Warren noted that the coalition has trained more than 31,000 Iraqi Security forces to date. The trainees include members of the Iraqi army, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, police, tribal fighters and border security forces.

On April 18, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced that the United States will deploy an additional 217 troops to Iraq to assist local forces in the fight to retake the city of Mosul from the Daesh.

The terror group has captured large swaths of land in Iraq and Syria where it proclaimed a caliphate ruled by Sharia law.

The Islamic State, also known as Daesh in Arabic, is outlawed in numerous countries, including Russia and the United States.