NATO is looking to train Iraqi officers and provide other direct support in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to alleviate the burden on U.S. and other coalition members' resources.

"We will discuss how we can extend our training for Iraqi officers as they continue to fight ISIL," said the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday, using another acronym for the terrorist group.

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"We will consider how we can provide direct support to the coalition against ISIL with AWACS surveillance aircraft," he added. An AWACS aircraft is one equipped with an Airborne Warning and Control System, essentially making it a flying air traffic control tower.

Officials expect more details to be nailed down in time for a decision at a major NATO summit in Warsaw in three weeks. The support has been requested in writing by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, a senior NATO official said on background.

The official said the training would be of an advisory nature, such as helping the government reform its defense community, learning how to do long-term defense planning and counter improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and providing logistics and medical care for troops.

"These are things that the Iraqi system needs very much," the official said. "The aim is to scale up to move inside Iraq and to increase the scope."

The official said currently, about 500 or 600 Iraqis are being trained in Jordan, but NATO is looking to train them inside Iraq and scale that training up.

"NATO's got quite a bit of experience over the last 15 years on training indigenous military capabilities, certainly in Afghanistan, but also in Iraq," said a senior NATO official.

The official said the current coalition air campaign against ISIS is enabled by AWACS aircraft — largely a U.S. capability, but NATO could contribute some of its 16 AWACS aircraft.

"If there's an AWACS gap in number of hours per week, then NATO could plug in and try to fill that gap," the official said.