Iraq will send request to NATO for help with training its security forces, a coalition spokesman said on Wednesday, Reuters news agency reported.

Last week Iraq’s National Security Advisor Falih al-Fayyadh visited NATO headquarters in Brussels and held talks on ways to enhance NATO-Iraq cooperation, a statement on the coalition website said.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi informed NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at a meeting that Baghdad would lodge the request, NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said.

NATO ambassadors will review the request, once the alliance receives it, she said.

Al Arabiya