Iraq’s ambassador to Tehran says his country represented the whole world in its fight against ISIS, and now his country needs global help and support to reconstruct the city of Mosul which was recently liberated from terrorists.
A senior Iranian official has warned that adopting divisive approaches in Iraq would prepare the ground for the Arab country’s enemies to pursue more excessive demands and boost insecurity and instability.
Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the United Nations special envoy to Iraq, Jan Kubis, exchanged views about a range of issues, including Baghdad’s latest efforts to combat terrorist groups in the Arab country.
Military sources say at least 25 thousand ISIS militants have been killed during the 9-month operation by 100,000 Iraqi forces, which ended in the liberation of the northern city of Mosul.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has formally declared victory of the country’s forces over the ISIS Takfiri terrorist group one day after the country’s military and Popular Mobilization Forces took full control of the northern city.
The ISIS terrorist group has burned the biggest archive of its secret documents and data known as “The Blue Archive of ISIS” in Tal Afar, near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
In separate messages, various Iranian officials including the ministers of foreign affairs and defence, the top general, and the top security official have offered congratulations to Iraq on the liberation of Mosul from ISIS terrorists.
The operation to liberate Mosul from the ISIS terrorists was completed three years after the terrorist group’s ringleader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared himself “caliph” in the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in 2014.
As the Iraqi army’s operation to retake the last stronghold of ISIS in Iraq is going on, many inside and outside of the war-torn country are preparing for a post-ISIS Iraq.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has held talks with Ammar Hakim, the Head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), on the latest developments in the Arab country.
The ISIS terrorists have, in their latest mass murder, burned a dozen Iraqi civilians alive in iron cages in the city of Hawija in the northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk.
Abu Qutaiba, one of the ISIS’ Friday prayer leaders, has been executed by the terrorist group on charge of confirming the news of their leader al-Baghdadi’s death during his sermon in Tal Afar, near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, on Friday (June 30).
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani congratulated the Iraqi nation and government on the liberation of Mosul from the hands of the Takfiri Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorists.
As the military operation keeps going on to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS, the Iraqi troops have managed to release a large number of families from the grip of the militants who used them as human shields.
A number of ISIS leaders and elements have been killed and wounded by one of their own suicide attackers who blew himself up amid a gathering of the group’s terrorists in Iraq.
The ISIS terrorist group has told its elements in western Nineveh to look forward to the release of an important statement about the terrorist groups’ ringleader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who is said to be killed.
With the recent achievements of the Iraqi forces and Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) in their fight against ISIS terrorists in Iraq, it seems the days of ISIS are numbered in Iraq. But does it mean the region will finally get rid of radical ideologies?