NATO will take “a more direct role” in the fight against Daesh, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Monday.
“First by contributing AWACS [Airborne Warning and Control System] and conducting training and defense capacity building for Iraq inside Iraq rather than in Jordan," Carter said at an annual conference of the Center for New American Security think tank, Anadolu reports.
"Hopefully that will be the start of more to come,” he added.
Carter did not provide further details about the alliance’s role in the fight against Daesh but it was apparently discussed at a NATO ministerial meeting in Belgium’s capital Brussels earlier this month and will be discussed next month at the NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland.
The top defense official said the alliance will also complement the European Union’s efforts to deal with migrant and refugee crisis in the Mediterranean Sea and the Aegean Sea.
