SULAIMANI (ESTA) — The Iraqi army received dozens of military vehicles from the U.S.-led Coalition forces on Saturday, according to state news agency (INA).
The Coalition forces fighting Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria provided 63 Humvees and 20 Toyota vehicles to the Iraqi military at Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar province, INA reported.
Deputy Commander of the First Infantry Division of the Iraqi Army Brigadier General Hassan Mohammed Zaidan received the aid, it said.
The Iraqi counter-terrorism service also received 60 ambulances on Saturday through the U.S. Counter ISIS Train and Equip Fund program, Coalition spokesman Wayne Marotto said.
“The Coalition, along with our Iraqi partners, works toward the common goal of keeping the region free of Daesh,” Marotto said in a tweet, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.
The Coalition Forces led by the United States was formed in 2014 when ISIS militants overran large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria. The Coalition supports Iraqi and Kurdish forces to defeat ISIS militants in the country.
In December 2020, the Coalition told Esta Media Network that it had funded more than $5 billion of support to equip and train Iraqi and Kurdish forces since 2014.
The Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) said the funds went to a wide range of materials from a small 9-cent washer to repair a vehicle, to a $13 million equipment set for a full Peshmerga brigade.
