Saturday, 26 September 2015

Iraq says Russia, Iran, Syria cooperating on security issues in Baghdad


BAGHDAD: Iraqi said on Saturday that its military officials are participating in intelligence and security cooperation in Baghdad with Russia, Iran and Syria to counter the threat from the Islamic State militant group.
A statement from the Iraqi military's joint operations command said the agreement came "with increased Russian concern about the presence of thousands of terrorists from Russia undertaking criminal acts with Daesh (Islamic State)."
Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said in New York on Friday his country had not received any Russian military advisers to help its forces.

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