Pentagon mulls improving Iraqi troop training after fall of Ramadi

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter arrives to make a personnel announcement in the Pentagon Briefing Room in Washington May 13, 2015. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Thursday Pentagon officials have begun to examine how the U.S. military could better equip and train Iraqi troops after the recent fall of the Iraqi city of Ramadi to Islamic State insurgents.

Carter told reporters on his plane to Asia that he had convened a group of defence policy officials and military officers from U.S. Central Command and the Pentagon's Joint Staff to look at how "we can enhance, hasten" the mission to train and equip Iraqi forces.