IRNA Iraqi tribes thanked Iran's support for their country during the fight against Daesh (ISIS) terrorists. In a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday, the Iraqi tribal chiefs from Karbala and Babil welcomed his visit to the region. The Iraqi tribes condemned the US sanctions against Iran and called for improvement of relations ...

MNA Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of General Staff of Iranian Armed Forces, said some Sukhoi fighter jets overhauled by Iranian experts were used in Iraq to combat terrorism. Chief of General Staff of Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri made the remark in a national conference on Tuesday. Some of our aircraft, including ...

The Latvian Defense Ministry is considering a possibility of sending its soldiers to Iraq to help fight against the Islamic State militant group, the ministry's spokesman said on Monday. RIGA (Sputnik) Last week, another Baltic state, Estonia, announced plans tojoin the fight againstthe Islamic State militants in2016. Prior tothat, the countrys ...

Members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group have reportedly detained more than 100 civilians in Iraqs beleaguered northern province of Nineveh,as they continue committing crimes in theareas undertheir control. The spokesman for the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Mosul, Saeed Mamouzini, told Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network ...

Tehran, August 18, IRNA Beating on the drums of war among followers of different Islamic schools of thought and other religious minorities in Iraq is a plot hatched by the enemies of Islam, said chairman of Expediency Council on Tuesday. 'The prominent religious scholars, leaders of political groups and parties, and even heads of tribes in Iraq ...