Iran’s Soleimani arrives in Kurdish region for talks about crisis with Baghdad

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A boy rides a bicycle with the flag of Kurdistan in Tuz Khurmato
File Photo – A boy rides a bicycle with the flag of Kurdistan in Tuz Khurmato, Iraq September 24, 2017. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

October 15, 2017

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – 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.

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.

(Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed; writing by Maher Chmaytelli; editing by Louise Heavens)

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