Tehran, YJC. After breaking into the city, peshmarga are fighting the remaining Isil forces and moving toward Tal Afar to retake the second most strategic area after Mosul.
Tehran, YJC. Deputy Foreign Minister for African and Arab Affairs Hussein Amir Abdullahian says Iran and Russia share strategy to support Iraq and Syria in the face of terrorism.
Tehran, YJC. Iran's Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani praised the security levelof the Arbaeen rituals in Iraq’s Karbala on Monday.
Tehran, YJC. The spokesman for the Iranian administration Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said Iran, trying to facilitate the movement of pilgrims, plans to connect its railroad network to Iraq.
Chairman of the Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Monday that Iraq can play a very significant role to help resolve issues in Syria and Lebanon IRNA reported.
Iraq's Interior Ministry said on Wednesday that a woman detained by Lebanese authorities was not the wife of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but the sister of a man convicted of bombings in southern Iraq.
Iranian fighter jets have bombed Islamic State (IS) jihadists in eastern Iraq in recent days, but the strikes were not coordinated with US forces, the Pentagon says.
TEHRAN, YJC. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi praised Iran for standing by his country in very critical conditions, when other countries were hesitant to help the Arab nation in the face of threats posed by terrorists.
TEHRAN, YJC. Iran’s Deputy FM for Arab and African Affairs criticizes the US failure in fighting ISIL and says US intention is to deploy troops in Iraq once more.