Iran's Soleimani arrives in Kurdish region for talks about crisis with Baghdad

Iran's Soleimani arrives in Kurdish region for talks about crisis with Baghdad
Sun Oct 15, 2017 12:44:54

Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani has arrived in Iraq's Kurdistan region for talks about the escalating crisis between the Kurdish authorities and the Iraqi government following the Kurdish independence referendum, a Kurdish official said on Sunday.

(reuters) -- Soleimani is the commander of foreign operations for Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, a military corp providing training and weapons to Iraqi paramilitary groups fighting Isis.


 

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