Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (R) addresses the media in Ankara December 25, 2014. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey and Iraq, both worried by the advance of Islamic State, pledged on Thursday to work towards greater military cooperation in their fight against the ultra radical Sunni militants.
Turkey is already training Kurdish peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq to help them battle Islamic State insurgents, who control territory in Iraq and Syria.
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