“Iraq expressed in the past its desire to direct air strikes by using U.S. aircraft without a pilot or to carry out American bombing to help defeat the attack militants,” An official from the U.S. administration of President Barack Obama, who requested anonymity told "Reuters" in news seen by "Shafaq News”.

The New York Times reported that Iraqi Prime Minister , Nuri al-Maliki has requested secretly from Obama’s administration to consider air strikes on areas of armed militants with the escalation of risk in the past month.