[caption id="attachment_149223" align="alignright" width="220"] Iraqi forces re-group during a military operation in Diyala Province on Jan 24, 2015. AFP[/caption] MANSOURIYA, Iraq Shiite militias backed by Iran are increasingly taking the lead in Iraqs fight against the Islamic State, threatening to undermine U.S. strategies intended to bolster the ...

Tehran, Jan 6, IRNA Chairman of the Expediency Council said Tuesday evening that all sects and ethnic groups should be unified to fight the ominous phenomenon of terrorism in Iraq. Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani made the remarks in a meeting with visiting member of Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council Adel Abdul-Mahdi. Rafsanjani made it clear that ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry announced that the country supports Iraqi government's measure for keeping unity and solidarity across Iraq. "We support Iraqi measures for protecting its national unity and these measures help keeping national unity of the country," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham told ISNA. "Iraq's ...