NATO Chief Says would Consider Iraq Request for Help against ‘IS’

NATO would "seriously" consider any request from Iraq for assistance in a war against insurgents from the so-called Islamic State terrorists

NATO would "seriously" consider any request from Iraq for assistance in a war against insurgents from the so-called Islamic State terrorists, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday.
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"We will discuss what individual allies and what NATO can do to counter the threat from the terrorist organization, so-called Islamic State," he said before the start of a two-day summit of leaders from the Western military alliance in Newport, Wales.

"We haven't received any request for NATO engagement. I'm sure that if the Iraqi government were to forward a request for NATO assistance, that would be considered seriously by NATO allies," the secretary general said. "I do believe that the international community as a whole has an obligation to stop the Islamic State from advancing further," he said.

British Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama said in an op-ed in the Times newspaper on Thursday that their countries would not be "cowed" by the threats.