Gen. Soleimani arrives in Kurdish region for talks about crisis with Baghdad

Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani has arrived in Iraq’s Kurdistan region for talks about the escalating crisis between the Kurdish authorities and the Iraqi government following the Kurdish independence referendum, a Kurdish official said on Sunday.

کد خبر: ۷۳۸۷۹۴

تاریخ: ۲۳ مهر ۱۳۹۶ - ۱۳:۲۰

Soleimani is the commander of foreign operations for Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, a military corp providing training and weapons to Iraqi paramilitary groups backing the Shi‘ite-led government in Baghdad.