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Iraq, Turkey pledge to join hands to fight Islamic State militants

ANKARA: Iraq and Turkey on Thursday (Dec 25) pledged to join forces to fight Islamic State (IS) insurgents who are holding swathes of Iraq and Syria.

"ISIS threatens not only Iraq's and Turkey's security but the entire region," Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi told a joint news conference with his Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu, using an alternative name for IS militants.

Turkey, a vocal critic of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, has faced international criticism for letting radicals pass through its territory to fight in Syria.

Ankara wants a wider strategy for Syria that would ultimately bring Assad's downfall. It has repeatedly called for a buffer zone, backed by a no-fly zone, to be put in place inside the war-torn country on the Turkish border.

"We can defeat this organisation by uniting all our powers, with the support of the countries in the region," al-Abadi said, in translated remarks. Al-Abadi said he expected Turkish support on intelligence-sharing, military training and armaments.

Davutoglu said Turkey was already training Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters to combat the IS. "We are open to any idea" to extend further support to Baghdad, he said.

Turkey and Iraq shared a "common approach to fight all terrorist organisations in the region" including the IS and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Davutoglu said.

"We are ready to give any kind of support against terrorist organisations including those who have emerged in recent times like (IS) as well as the PKK which launches attacks against Turkey by using Iraqi soil," he said.

Iraq is battling to retake large areas overrun by the militant group while Turkey borders territory which the militants control in neighbouring Syria. The Iraqi prime minister said that Iraqi security forces and peshmerga fighters were "rapidly" pushing out the insurgents from areas under their control.

Al-Abadi's visit to Turkey follows a trip to Iraq by Davutoglu in November - in a sign of a thaw in bilateral ties which were strained in recent years over a number of issues including Ankara's move to aid Iraqi Kurds independently export oil.

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Libya Oil Ports Guard Calls In Air Strikes on Islamist Militias

Libyas government struck from the air at Islamist militias it said shelled the countrys largest oil port today, according to the military unit in charge of protecting export terminals.

The strike comes two days after the Petroleum Facilities Guard gave the militias 72 hours to return to Misrata, their main stronghold, to avoid the airstrikes after an earlier attack on the Es Sider terminal.

We decided to order attacks from the air without waiting after the rocket attack on Es Sider, Ali al-Hasy, a spokesman for unit, said by phone from the port, where loading was halted Dec. 13 after a first round of clashes.

Aircraft belonging to the internationally recognized government of Abdullah al-Thinni attacked the artillery unit that fired on the port and bombed positions in Misrata and along the front line in Bin Jawad, 35 kilometers west of Es Sider, he said.

The self-proclaimed government of Omar al-Hassi didnt confirm todays bombing of the port. On Dec. 13 it ordered the Islamist militias backing it to wrest the eastern oil export terminals from the control of Thinnis government.

A fire at the storage terminal caused by todays shelling has been contained and there is no risk of it spreading to other facilities, al-Hasy said.

State-run National Oil Corp. on Dec. 13 declared force majeure in Es Sider and the neighboring port of Ras Lanuf, Libyas third-largest, because of the fighting. Force majeure is a legal clause that protects a company from liability when it cant fulfill a contract for reasons beyond its control.

The fighting caused crude output to decline to 352,000 barrels a day, Mohamed Elharari, a spokesman for National Oil, said today by phone.

This level makes Libya, which sits on Africas largest oil reserves, the smallest producer of the 12-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The country was producing about 1.6 million barrels a day before the 2011 rebellion that ended Muammar Qaddafis 42-year rule.

The Petroleum Facilities Guard said the militias killed 14 soldiers who were guarding a power plant in Sirte, a former Qaddafi stronghold west of Es Sider.

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