Carter, on visit to Baghdad, seeks to step up US Islamic State fight
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BAGHDAD - US Defense Secretary Ash Carter was on Wednesday hoping to discuss with Iraqi officials Washington's offer of attack helicopters and advisers to help retake the city of Ramadi as part of an intensified fight against Islamic State.
Carter said he would also be speaking to US commanders during his visit to Baghdad to get a reading on the battlefield and "their thinking about ways that we can continue to accelerate the campaign to defeat ISIL".
Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, is an ultra-hardline Sunni Muslim group that controls swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq and has a presence in other Arab countries such as Egypt and Libya.
