Report: Iranian forces arrive in Iraq’s Kurdistan
A heavily armed Iranian military force arrived at Sulaymaniyah International Airport in the autonomous northern Kurdistan region of Iraq this week en route to Kirkuk to help defend Shiite shrines from Sunni militant attacks, pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat, quoting an Iraqi Kurdish security official, reported Thursday. The senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because […]A heavily armed Iranian military force arrived at Sulaymaniyah International Airport in the autonomous northern Kurdistan region of Iraq this week en route to Kirkuk to help defend Shiite shrines from Sunni militant attacks, pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat, quoting an Iraqi Kurdish security official, reported Thursday.
The senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to brief the media about the Iranian military, told the daily that the 200-strong elite Iranian military force was granted access to Kirkuk province from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).
