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Published time: January 12, 2015 18:57
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Swedish Foreign Minister Margo Wallstrom said that Stockholm may send military personnel to Iraq. The troops would train soldiers to help Baghdad in its fight against Islamic State forces. The minister ruled out sending combat troops.
''We have seen the possibility of sending a smaller unit which could help train military personnel,'' Wallstrom said during a military conference in the Swedish resort of Salen on Sunday, according to Anadolu Agency.
Wallstrom did not specify the size of the potential deployment, but said the personnel would be sent exclusively to train Kurdish peshmerga forces. The Social Democratic minister noted that Germany would lead the training mission, and that Finnish troops would contribute as well.
This would be an important contribution to show that we want to share responsibility for meeting a difficult threat...this contribution will not involve active combat," she told the Local.
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''And this is again because we need to be more effective in how we meet ISILs depredations,'' Wallstrom added. ''This is an effort which many EU countries have joined in different ways.''
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq requested military assistance to help combat the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in November.
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Updated JAN 16, 2015 9:44a ET
BRISBANE, Australia
Keisuke Honda agreed he needed to adjust his radar despite guiding Japan to the top of Group D with a match-winning penalty against Iraq on Friday, putting the defending champions into a prime position to secure a spot in the knockout stages of the Asian Cup.
Japan beat the 2007 champions 1-0 in Brisbane to move to six points, three clear of Iraq and Jordan, which thrashed tournament newcomer Palestine 5-1 in Melbourne to move into quarterfinal contention.
Honda hit the woodwork three times in a game that Japan dominated and said he needed to convert those opportunities in future.
''I will score next game,'' Honda, voted player of the match, promised in his post-match news conference.
Hamza Aldaradreh couldn't miss as he tallied four goals to help Jordan overcome its problems in attack with a handful of goals before Palestine got a consolation in the 85th - its first goal in the continental championship.
That left the group finely poised, with no team yet assured of a spot in the quarterfinals and no team out of contention. One point against Jordan in Melbourne on Tuesday will be enough for Japan to go through regardless of other results. Iraq will play Palestine in Canberra at the same time, and is a hot favorite to win against a team that conceded nine goals in two games before midfielder Jaka Hbaisha scored from a set piece against Jordan after 84 minutes.
Aldaradreh's scoring touch gave Jordan coach Ray Wilkins a selection dilemma ahead of the Japan match. He was previously third-choice striker behind Odai Al Saify and Ahmad Hayel.
''Now Hamza's given me a horrible headache that I have to try and sort out,'' Wilkins said. ''Nevertheless I'm delighted for him and I'm delighted for the lads as well.''
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NAJAF, Iraq Since Sunni militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria overran large parts of Iraq, the country's most prominent Shiite cleric has fundamentally altered his spiritual role and has plunged straight into politics, weighing in on government policy and the fight against the extremists.
The shift by the Iranian-born Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani underlines the key role played by religion in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq and takes the troubled country down a potentially dangerous path, given its deep sectarian and ethnic tensions. His role falls well short of Iranian-style theocracy, in which the top cleric has the final word on everything, but Iraq's government clearly feels it must listen to him.
Al-Sistani saw it as a necessity to step in with his moral authority, given the failures of politicians and the collapse of the military when the Islamic State group overran much of the north and west in the summer, an aide said.
"It is his legitimate right, but he did not seek to exercise it. It was forced upon him," an aide in the holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, told the Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the news media. "People wait from one Friday to the next to hear what Sayed al-Sistani has to say."
But Alireza Nader, senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, said that even if it is seen as necessary, "heavy intervention by the clergy means that Iraq's government is not going to be secular any time soon, although not theocratic either. But perhaps something in between."
In June, al-Sistani pushed for the removal of then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, seen even by many of his fellow Shiites as to blame for the meltdown. Al-Maliki stepped down in August, replaced by Haidar al-Abadi, a fellow Shiite politician who promised a more inclusive administration.
The 87-year-old cleric also swiftly called on all able-bodied Iraqi men to join a jihad, or holy struggle, against ISIS, and hundreds of thousands overwhelmingly Shiites responded.
In the months since, the grand ayatollah has weighed in on matters in unprecedented detail, often through sermons delivered by his representative, Sheikh Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalaie, in the holy city of Karbala, south of Baghdad.
Al-Sistani holds the title of "al-marjaa al-akbar," or the "greatest object of emulation," and is venerated as a voice of reason in Iraq and among the more than 200 million Shiites worldwide.
He works in austere reclusion, almost never seen in public, from his modest home in Najaf's old quarter.
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Jordan 0 Iraq 1 - Match 8 2015 AFC Asian Cup Group D (12th January 2015)
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