Obama Said to Seek $3.2 Billion to Fight Islamic State

President Barack Obama will ask Congress this week to approve $3.2 billion in added Pentagon and intelligence spending to continue fighting Islamic State and possibly to retrain Iraq’s military forces, according to U.S. officials.

The amendment to the pending $58.6 billion war operations budget for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 will include funds to replace munitions used in operations against Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria, according to the one of the officials. It also may provide at least $500 million to train and equip Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting the Sunni militants, although another official said a final decision hasn’t been reached on that issue. The officials asked not to be identified before the request is made.