Obama stresses US forces to have no 'combat mission' in Iraq

By Nick O'Malley
Updated September 19 2014 - 7:08am, first published 12:36am

Washington: Barack Obama has again declared he would not commit ground troops to battle against Islamic State militants as the US House of Representatives backs his plan to arm and train Syrian rebels.

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