A lot of development in Kirkuk province, Hawija liberated from IS and ISF taking up positions bordering the Pesh in Kirkuk province.
See map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Iraqi_insurgency_detailed_map
It would be nice if T-90 deliveries start to establish an armored presence up there.
That's cause our air force is not mature yet having less than 20 operational F-16's. However, intensity of the air support has not been that great. Infact, in Ramadi, Tikrit and Fallujah operations the air cover was a joke. It only got better when Russia intervened in Syria forcing the US to...
You act as if we call can't fight, and Iraq also keeps getting underestimated despite clearing major towns from IS. Mosul being called the most brutal urban battle since WW2.
Who needs conscription when u have a population that will obey the words of some cleric when he declares Jihad.. Enough in Iran who will sign up in that case.
Conscription isn't good, volunteers are more effective
You're comparing it wrongly, Iraq possessed about 6000 tanks during 1988-1990 NOT 2003, also 4th largest was during 1988-1990, not the crippled 2003 version. Iraq's terrain (flat) makes for a military strategy where tanks are very important, not the same story in Iran. To enter those cities you...
What about you, what do u do
Let us stop claiming achievements of others, I also have a female family member that used to work in the Tammuz nuclear reactor, those are not my achievements.
What Europeans think of the region doesn't matter to us, they know little. Too many foreigners are interested in the middle east, they should stick to their own region.
Photos will follow
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-iran-exercises/iranian-iraqi-government-forces-to-hold-joint-border-drills-iran-tv-idUSKCN1C50CG
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian and Iraqi central government forces are to hold joint military exercises near their borders, Iran’s state...
Whatever will follow, what Abadi did was unexpected and great, I wasn't expecting it. For the first time since 2003 Baghdad is actually admitting that KRG is a leech enemy acting on it, Iraq will never go back to that era of acting nicely to KRG. Now the more it escalates the better, although...