Malak Ghobrial of Reuters is reporting that:
Iraq may need three years to rebuild and restructure its military, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Sunday, as the country battles Islamic State militants who pose the biggest threat to its security since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
There was an Iraqi army and it had been amply funded, equipped, and trained by the United States. That army consisted of:
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