Iraqi Pilots Mistakenly Give Food, Ammunition to ISIS

Iraqi military pilots accidentally gave food, water and ammunition to ISIS militants instead of their own soldiers, a senior security official told NBC News. The supplies were intended for Iraqi army troops who had been fighting the Islamist extremists for a week in Saglawyah and the village of Al-Sijar in the country’s western province of Anbar. A lawmaker in the Iraqi parliament said the soldiers are in "deadly need" of the supplies, but "because of the wrong plans of the commanders in the Iraqi army and lack of experience of the pilots, we in a way or another helped ISIS fighters to kill our soldiers."

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