ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Iraqi Prime
Minister Haider al-Abadi told his Australian counterpart Malcolm
Turnbull by phone Monday that ISIS was not a threat to Iraq alone, but
the whole world, Abadi’s media office has reported, adding that Abadi
thanked Turnbull for Australia’s role in fighting ISIS.
In a statement, the media office added that Turnbull emphasized in the
phone call that the “Iraqi army should be better and more equipped and
trained.”
Australia has taken a major role in boosting the Iraqi army, and
Australia’s military trainers and army personnel in Iraq “have been a
good support for our forces,” Abadi reportedly also said.
Australia joined the US-led anti-ISIS coalition in October 2014, but its
then Prime Minister Tony Abbot took pains to stress his country was not
going to war.
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