AhlulBayt News Agency - Iranian military advisers are playing “a remarkable” role in the fight to liberate the Iraqi city of Fallujah from the so-called Islamic State group (ISIS), reported a Shiite commander whose militia is involved in the fighting.
“The role of our brothers, the Iranian advisers, is remarkable. They have great military skills to face the enemy,” Abu-Kawsar, a commander of the Saraya al-Jihad militia, said. He added that their number was “not a lot.”
Last Monday the Iraqi Army began an offensive on Fallujah, west of Baghdad and the first city seized by ISIS when it stormed across Iraq in June 2014. Shiite and Sunni militias allied with the Iraqi Army are also involved in the fighting.
On Tuesday, some Syrian news websites reported that Qassem Suleimani, commander of Iran’s elite Quds force who exercises immense influence in Iraq, was laying out the military plans for the recapture of Fallujah.
They published a photograph of Suleimani, saying it showed him outside Fallujah, sitting and talking with the leaders of several Iraqi paramilitary groups.
Last month, a senior Iranian commander reportedly announced that Tehran would be sending Special Force commandos as “advisors” to Iraq.
Iranian advisors are known to be present both in Iraq and Syria. In Iraq they back the government and in Syria Tehran has military advisors on the side of President Bashar al-Assad.
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29 May 2016 - 06:47
News ID: 756981
Iranian military advisers are playing “a remarkable” role in the fight to liberate the Iraqi city of Fallujah from the so-called Islamic State group (ISIS), reported a Shiite commander whose militia is involved in the fighting.
