The center has been operational for about a week and already has provided intelligence for airstrikes on a gathering of middle-level Islamic State figures, Hakim al-Zamili, the head of the Iraqi parliament’s defense and security committee, told Reuters on Tuesday.
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The new security apparatus based in Baghdad suggests the United States is losing clout in a strategic oil-producing Middle East, where it has been heavily invested for years. The US has denied the allegation.
On September 30, Russian Federation started airstrikes against positions held by Daesh across Syria upon an official request from the government in Damascus.
The Islamic State leader went on to say that the terrorist group “is today stronger than ever”.
“We find it extremely useful”, said an Iraqi official who asked not to be named. However, due to Russian Federation and the United States’ increased presence in Syria, the world is beginning to see the beginnings of another Russo-American proxy war in the Middle East, similar to the Soviet Afghan was that stretched from December of 1979 to February of 1989, with the recently declared jihad showing that ISIS appears to be caught in a potential crossfire.
A Pentagon spokesman, Army Col. Steve Warren, said he couldn’t verify the report of military cooperation among Iraq, Iran and Russian Federation, but insisted that the U.S.-led coalition is having success against the Islamic State. Iranian military advisers help direct Baghdad’s campaign against IS.
Adnani went on to argue that “Russia will be defeated”, adding that the United States is attempting to “to forge an alliance with the devil”. The White House said at the time that a USA air strike in Iraq had killed Hayali, whom it described as the second-in-command of the group which has seized swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.
“Iraqi air forces have bombed the convoy of the terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi while he was heading to Karabla to attend a meeting with Daesh commanders”, an Iraqi air force statement said. “We can get a lot of use from Russian intelligence, even if they don’t do air strikes”, Zamili said.
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Sami Al Askari, a former member of Iraq’s parliament and one-time senior adviser to former prime minister Nouri Al Maliki, said Iraq was aware of the sensitivities of the new arrangement.
