The Iraqi military announced Sunday that it had agreed to share intelligence about the Islamic State with Russia, the Syrian government and Iran, an agreement that caught the Obama administration off guard.

The Iraqi military said in a statement that the new agreement was necessary because thousands of volunteers who have joined the Islamic State have come from Russia. Asked if he welcomed the accord, Secretary of State John Kerry said it was important that the United States and Russia coordinate.

“I think the critical thing is that all of the efforts need to be coordinated,” Mr. Kerry said at the start of a meeting in New York with Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister. “This is not yet coordinated. I think we have concerns about how we’re going to go forward, but that’s precisely what we’re meeting on to talk about now.”

As Russia has engaged in a military buildup at an air base near Latakia in Syria, President Vladimir V. Putin has sought to assemble his own coalition against the Islamic State, one that includes the Syrian government and Iran.

The effort, which Mr. Putin is expected to underscore in his speech at the United Nations on Monday, appears designed to increase Russia’s influence over efforts to resolve the Syrian conflict. It not only puts Russia in a position to support President Bashar al-Assad militarily, but it could enable the Kremlin to influence the choice of a successor if Mr. Assad were eventually to leave power.

With about 3,500 American advisers, trainers and other military personnel in his country, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of Iraq has cast himself as a vital member of the United States-led coalition to combat the Islamic State, and has not joined the Russian-led coalition.

But Iraq has also quietly enabled the Russian military buildup in Syria and has cooperated with Iran, from which it receives military support. While Bulgaria closed its airspace to Russian transport planes headed to Syria at the request of the United States, Iraq has allowed the Russian flights to use its airspace. Virtually all of the Russian transport planes that have flown weapons and equipment to the air base near Latakia have crossed through Iraqi and Iranian airspace.

“We did not violate any of our commitments toward the international community,” Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Iraq’s foreign minister, said when he was asked about the Russian flights during a Friday appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Iraq is buying aircraft and other weapons from Russia. But American concerns that Mr. Putin might be trying to draw Iraq into the Russia-led coalition grew last week when a group of Russian military officers were observed in Baghdad.

Russia did not provide advance notice to the Obama administration of its decision to deploy attack planes, fighter aircraft, tanks and other military equipment near Latakia.

Asked about the purpose of the agreement announced by the Iraqi military Sunday, Mr. Lavrov said it was to “coordinate the efforts against ISIL,” using an acronym for the Islamic State.

Mr. Kerry, however, stressed that there was much to be done if the two sides were to effectively coordinate.

“Our presidents will be meeting tomorrow,” Mr. Kerry said. “This is the beginning of a genuine effort to see if there is a way to de-conflict, but also to find a way forward that will be effective in keeping a united, secular Syria that can be at peace and stable again without foreign troops present, and that’s our hope.”

A senior State Department official, who briefed reporters after Mr. Kerry’s meeting with Mr. Lavrov on the condition of anonymity, said that the two diplomats had not discussed the new Iraqi intelligence accord. “We’re just at the beginning of trying to understand what the Russians’ intentions are in Syria, in Iraq, and to try to see if there are mutually beneficial ways forward here,” said the official. “We’ve got a long way to go in that conversation.”

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Good

GOOD! I just hope the US would join the coalition to once and for all decimate those savages and suspend plans to topple the ASSAD government for another day. THOUGH ASSAD MUST GO!

You can't gas your own people and remain the boss....

Can you just imagine that?

“Bulgaria closed its airspace to Russian transport planes headed to Syria at the request of the United States.”

And some foolish beer parlour analysts & sympathizers will never see this as a deliberate plan of America to sabotage the fight against ISIS.

Until America is brought down to ashes, the world will never know peace.

Ride on Mohammadu Putin!

I will comment later,make I brush

America seem to be loosing this chess game. my concern is that it may become the third world war. with America, Saudi Arabia and Isreal on one side and Russia, China Syria etc on the other side. But America and Isreal combine will give these other guys a run for their money that is if they survive at all

PRYCE:
GOOD! I just hope the US would join the coalition to once and for all decimate those savages and suspend plans to topple the ASSAD government for another day. THOUGH ASSAD MUST GO!

You can't gas your own people and remain the boss....

You shouild know that the gas issue was a false flag created to pave the way for an attack against Assad.

Zoharariel:
Can you just imagine that?

“Bulgaria closed its airspace to Russian transport planes headed to Syria at the request of the United States.”

And some foolish beer parlour analysts & sympathizers will never see this as a deliberate plan of America to sabotage the fight against ISIS.

Until America is brought down to ashes, the world will never know peace.

Ride on Mohammadu Putin!

Exactly! And they think the Russians would be foolish to believe in their talk of coordination, nonsense. The US is the architect of the evil bedeviling the Middle East, and anyone who thinks that the US is fighting or will actually fight ISIS, is only hoping for fowl to grow teeth. ISIS belong to the US, and the plan in Syria is to get Assad out by fire by force, in other to get those pipelines laid that would undermine Russia and Iran gas to-Europe constructively.

But they must first get past the grand chess master whom you termed "Muhammadu Putin"!

Acjohn:
America seem to be loosing this chess game. my concern is that it may become the third world war. with America, Saudi Arabia and Isreal on one side and Russia, China Syria etc on the other side. But America and Isreal combine will give these other guys a run for their money that is if they survive at all

Day dreaming! You think say war na Hollywood? How would they give them a run for their money?

Acjohn:
America seem to be loosing this chess game. my concern is that it may become the third world war. with America, Saudi Arabia and Isreal on one side and Russia, China Syria etc on the other side. But America and Isreal combine will give these other guys a run for their money that is if they survive at all

Lolz... Israel give Russia a fight...Joke of the century

Acjohn:
America seem to be loosing this chess game. my concern is that it may become the third world war. with America, Saudi Arabia and Isreal on one side and Russia, China Syria etc on the other side. But America and Isreal combine will give these other guys a run for their money that is if they survive at all

SAUDI ARABIA AND ISREAL?..u didnt even add NATO...isreal and saudi arabia is the last thing on putin's mind right now..those countries are more like an ''after thought''when it comes to real threats against russia...

Appleyard:


Exactly! And they think the Russians would be foolish to believe in their talk of coordination, nonsense. The US is the architect of the evil bedeviling the Middle East, and anyone who thinks that the US is fighting or will actually fight ISIS, is only hoping for fowl to grow teeth. ISIS belong to the US, and the plan in Syria is to get Assad out by fire by force, in other to get those pipelines laid that would undermine Russia and Iran gas to-Europe constructively.

But they must first get past the grand chess master whom you termed "Muhammadu Putin"!

Sire, I doff my Baba Ijebu's cap to your analysis.

Anybody that aligns with America & Israel are simply enemy of mankind.

olatunji21:

Lolz... Israel give Russia a fight...Joke of the century

Unfortunately, the Arabians said same when they ganged up against Isreal. You can go and ask them of their opinion now. I can also tell you that the Instability in Syria started after they lost that war

Appleyard:

Day dreaming! You think say war na Hollywood? How would they give them a run for their money?

Certain times it it necessary to use their military ratings, their tactical know-how and how they are able to find ways out of impossibilities before you jump to conclusion. This is because it will dawn on you that weapons are good but they do not guarantee victory, neither does the strength of ones army. go through history again.

Acjohn:


Certain times it it necessary to use their military ratings, their tactical know-how and how they are able to find ways out of impossibilities before you jump to conclusion. This is because it will dawn on you that weapons are good but they do not guarantee victory, neither does the strength of ones army. go through history again.

Good that ou know that weapons alone don't win wars, and history is always a haunting determinant factor. Lets just hope all work out well.

byrron:

Russia did not provide advance notice to the Obama administration of its decision to deploy attack planes, fighter aircraft, tanks and other military equipment near Latakia.
Asked about the purpose of the agreement announced by the Iraqi military Sunday, Mr. Lavrov said it was to “coordinate the efforts against ISIL,” using an acronym for the Islamic State.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iraq-agrees-to-share-intelligence-on-isis-with-russia-syria-and-iran/ar-AAeR5DE?ocid=spartandhp

So they were expecting Judo master to write uncle Sam of his intentions abi? From the day I read that Russia stationed one of its carriers near Syria in the guise that it's offloading military gears I concluded nobody will get Assad.

ISIL another baby of western intelligence.

fineguy11:
SAUDI ARABIA AND ISREAL?..u didnt even add NATO...isreal and saudi arabia is the last thing on putin's mind right now..those countries are more like an ''after thought''when it comes to real threats against russia...

Your thoughts and analysis are FINE as your username! Except God get involved by virtue of His convenant with Isreal, they stand no chance against Russia. However, Isreal is a formidable force.

As for the Saudis, Iran will crush them like mad, not to mention the Red Army of Russia! And in NATO and America is to get involve openly, then we can expect the bacteria to assume the leadership of planet earth in the afermath of the Nuclear holocaust that would surely follow.

Zoharariel:


Sire, I doff my Baba Ijebu's cap to your analysis.

Anybody that aligns with America & Israel are simply enemy of mankind.

As sure as a pool banker! Today United States is been governed by satanists.

olatunji21:

Lolz... Israel give Russia a fight...Joke of the century

If Russia threatens the integrity and sovereingnty of Israel today,you think Russia will go scot-free.Israel will whoop Russia's ass big time.

All these Syria crisis,its only a matter of time,before US engages Russia using its one and only alibi in the Middle-East Israel.