Iraq: agreement on anti-ISIS joint information center with Russia, Syria and Iran

Baghdad, SANA – The Joint Operations Command in Baghdad announced agreement with Moscow, Damascus and Tehran to establish a joint information center in the Iraqi capital to coordinate operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

The Command was quoted as saying in a statement that Iraq agreed with Russia, Syria and Iran on intelligence and security cooperation to “help and cooperate in collecting information about the terrorist Daesh [ISIS] group.”

Over the past months, Iraq has formed several committees for cooperation in security and intelligence with countries that had expressed their willingness to cooperate with Baghdad in facing the spread of ISIS gangs, the statement said.

The information center was first announced earlier on Saturday by a military source in Moscow, who said the center will involve representatives of the general staffs of the four countries’ army’s.

R.J/H. Said

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