MESOPOTAMIA NEWS INTEL : Conference of the Deputy Chiefs of Staff of Iraq, Syria, Iran and Russia

SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ) – MESOPOTAMIA NEWS INTEL : Conference of the Deputy Chiefs of Staff of Iraq, Syria, Iran and Russia 

  1. Sept 2018 – MESOP – On September 1, 2018, a meeting was held in the office of the Iraqi defense minister, attended by the deputy chiefs of staff of Russia, Iran, and Syria, and the assistant to the Iraqi chief of staff. The meeting took place on the margins of the quadripartite security conference, held in order to increase security and intelligence coordination between the countries in the war against ISIS (Facebook page of the Iraqi Defense Ministry, September 1, 2018; Enab Baladi, September 1, 2018). The participating countries reportedly set up a joint operations room against ISIS, which is still operating in the desert region on the Iraqi-Syrian border (Al-Nahar, September 1, 2018). MORE VIA www.mesop.de