![]() officials to threaten to curtail military aid to Baghdad until the tanks were returned to Iraq control, a quarterly report by the U.S. Iraqi Kurdish officials contend that the Shi'ite paramilitary groups used Abrams tanks against Sunni Kurds in northern Iraq last year. "All of these tanks were recently returned to Iraqi Security Forces custody," Pahon added. This equipment was subsequently used by these groups" in the fight against the IS extremists. "We have discovered incidents where some U.S.-origin equipment, including M1 Abrams tanks, came into the possession of certain PMF groups. But he added that the United States had never supplied "defense articles" to the militia. The Iranian-backed Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) are legally considered by Iraq to be part of the Iraqi Security Forces, Pahon said. However, Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon said on February 9 that the estimated nine tanks were later returned to the Iraqi military. military had originally provided to the Iraqi Army. The Pentagon says Iranian-backed militias fighting Islamic State (IS) extremists in Syria used Abrams tanks that the U.S. ![]()
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