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Iraq
Iran Deploys Quds Forces To Support Iraqi Troops, Helps Retake Most Of Tikrit
2014-06-13
[IBTimes] In a stunning development that threatens to further destabilize the Middle East, Iran has deployed an elite unit of its Revolutionary Guard to help the Iraqi government take on ISIS, the Sunni militant group that has seized several areas in the northern part of the country.

Two battalions of the Quds Forces are already making progress in their fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, the Wall Street Journal reported. The militant group took control of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Wednesday, but Revolutionary Guard and Iraqi troops overtook 85 percent of the city on Thursday, Iraqi and Iranian security forces told the paper.
The military tradition of the Medes and the Persians extends a couple of millennia earlier than that of the Arabs...
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