U.S., Australian and New Zealand forces strengthen coalition forces in Iraq

Military forces from the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, New Zealand army, and Australian army joined together with Iraqi security forces to conduct a training exercise as part of a three-month course tailored to conduct close air support techniques and close combat attack training.

A New Zealand army instructor (left) explains a battlefield training scenario to an Iraqi army student during the Iraqi forward air control course live-fire training exercise March 8, 2018 in Besmaya, Iraq.(Photo Credit: U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Leticia Samuels)

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