In an interview with the BBC, Abadi said there were enough
fighters on the ground but they needed arms and equipment to defeat the
jihadists.
"I was a bit frustrated in my first three months of being a prime
minister because of the slowness of this support but I've seen in the
last probably four weeks, five weeks, there is an acceleration of the
support," Abadi added.
"I think the air bombing and the air campaign has increased in its intensity and its quality."
The IS group, a Sunni extremist group, has seized swathes of territory
in Syria and Iraq and imposed an extreme interpretation of Islam in the
areas under its control.
The international air campaign against the IS group was launched in Iraq in August and expanded to Syria the following month.
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