'Colorado secret space facility to help fight against Daesh'
Iran Press TV
Sat May 14, 2016 1:30PM
The Pentagon is reportedly seeking to use its new secretive space facility in the military campaign against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Thursday that he wants the new Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center (JICSpOC) to join the fight, according to The Washington Post.
The installation is a secret space facility located within Schriever Air Force Base in the state of Colorado.
It has been operating since October last year, and includes officials from the National Reconnaissance Office, which operates US spy satellites and works with intelligence agencies such as the NSA and the CIA.
"I have instructed our space community to join the fight [against Daesh], to figure out what we can do to contribute," the Post quoted Carter as saying after he paid a visit to the center.
"We need them to work right now on problems of space's role in conflict, first of all, because we are in conflicts today," he added.
The US along with some of its regional allies has been engaged in a military campaign against Daesh since September 2014.
Carter said last week that the battle against Daesh "is far from over." He said the US-led coalition had to do a lot more to curb the terror group.
This is while, Colonel Steve Warren, a US spokesman for the so-called anti-Daesh forces said the group has "not gained an inch" in Iraq.
He told the Pentagon press corps on Friday that Daesh terrorists "are showing resilience… that's to be expected. It's a war, they're going to fight."
Daesh terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, control parts of the country and also overran neighboring Iraq in 2014.
The US-led coalition stands accused of having done little to stop Daesh's advances in parts of Syria and in Iraq.
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