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Iraq
Iraq needs foreign troops due to increasing ISIS activity: Kurdish President Barzani
2020-01-09
[Rudaw] Iraq still requires support of the US-led International Coalition against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (ISIS), Kurdistan Region’s President Nechirvan Barzani said on Wednesday. His statements contested the Iraqi Parliament’s "unilateral decision" to call for the expulsion of foreign troops from Iraq.

"We in the Kurdistan Region assert that we believe Iraq generally needs the support of the Coalition Forces to fight against ISIS terrorists," President Barzani, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS, told news hounds in a presser following a meeting with top leaders of Kurdish parties.
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