NATO Agreed to Strengthen Local Security Force Training in Iraq February 13 7:17
The NATO-North Atlantic Treaty Organization will hold a meeting of the Ministers of Defense and agree to strengthen the task of training local security forces in Iraq to prevent the extremist organization IS = Islamic State from regaining power. did.
NATO held a defense ministers' meeting at its headquarters in Brussels, the Belgian capital, on December 12, discussing the situation in the Middle East.
NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg will step up a post-meeting press conference to strengthen training on local security forces in Iraq, one of the IS hubs, in response to the extremist organization IS. It was revealed that each country agreed. The scale of the increase and the details of training will be determined in the future.
Concerning NATO's activities in the Middle East, President Trump in the United States said in a speech last month that he would ask NATO to engage more in the Middle East. It is a form according to the request.
President Trump has repeatedly called on member states to raise defense spending, increasing pressure on NATO and member states.