Washington has decided to expedite delivery of missiles and reconnaissance drones to Iraq.

Washington has decided to expedite delivery of missiles and reconnaissance drones to Iraq, RT website reported Tuesday.

The move comes after the US said it would not return to assist Baghdad's forces, despite the country plunging deeper into a fight against Al-Qaeda-linked rebels.

The latest promise of sophisticated military hardware to Iraq, which continues to struggle against an insurgency three years after US forces left the country, comes just one month after the Pentagon already sent 75 Hellfire missiles and surveillance drones to the Iraqi military.

The announcement comes after US Secretary of State John Kerry said that US forces would not return to assist Iraqi security forces.

“This is a fight that belongs to the Iraqis,” Kerry said at the weekend in Jerusalem.

“We are not, obviously, contemplating returning. We are not contemplating putting boots on the ground. This is their fight, but we’re going to help them in their fight.”

The Obama administration said it would accelerate the latest cache of military hardware to Iraq as fighting intensifies between government forces and Al-Qaeda linked militants, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which last week seized the city of Fallujah in the Anbar Province.