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US Special Envoy Travels to Iraq for Next Phase of Anti-Daesh Campaign

© AP PhotoIraqi security forces and allied Popular Mobilization Forces fire rockets at Daesh positions at an oil field outside Beiji, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015
Iraqi security forces and allied Popular Mobilization Forces fire rockets at Daesh positions at an oil field outside Beiji, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015 - Sputnik International
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The US special presidential envoy for the Coalition to Counter Daesh left for Iraq to coordinate the next phase of the fight.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — US Special Presidential Envoy for the Coalition to Counter Daesh Brett McGurk will hold meetings in Iraq on advancing the campaign against the terrorists, according to the envoy’s Twitter message on Wednesday.

​Daesh has been designated as a terrorist group and is outlawed in the United States, Russia and numerous other countries. The infamous group has seized large areas in Iraq and Syria, and declared a caliphate on territories under its control.

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

Washington will also provide Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in Iraq with up to $415 million in financial assistance to support the fight against the terrorists.

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