The Iraqi military has officially announced it is to begin sharing
“security and intelligence” information with Russia, Syria and Iran to
help combat the advances of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL) group.
Aljazeera has more:
A statement issued by the Iraqi Joint Operations Command
said the countries would “help and cooperate in collecting information
about the terrorist Daesh group (using the Arabic acronym for
ISIL).” “It’s a committee coordinating between the four countries, with
representatives of each country, in the field of military intelligence
and aimed at sharing and analysing information,” Saad al-Hadithi, a
spokesman for
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s office, told the AFP news agency.
Hadithi said the countries would focus on “monitoring the movements
of terrorists… and degrading their capacity”. He did not say if they had
already begun their work.
Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan, reporting from Baghdad, said despite the
official announcement, the cooperation between the countries “was
nothing new”. “As the Syrian crisis became a war Iraqi militias went to
Damascus to protect holy shrines there and to defend the Assad regime,
in a deal brokered by Iran,” our correspondent said.
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