Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren addressed reporters Monday about the start of the U.S. military training mission of Iraqi and Kurdish forces in Iraq. According to Nick Simeone of DoD News, the Defense Department’s own media unit, Warren said that “four battalions of Iraqi security forces at a base in Taji, north of Baghdad” and that “[t]raining began at Asad Air Base in Anbar province for members of the Iraqi 7th Division several days earlier.” However, Warren also noted that at least one of these location is a target of “regular indirect enemy fire,” though the attacks have been ineffective:

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