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Iraqi Defense Minister Signs Military Cooperation Accord In St. Petersburg

August 03 2015

Russia

Senior Iraqi and Russian defense officials have finalized a military-technical cooperation agreement, reports Interfax-AVN.

Iraqi Defense Minister Khalid al-Ubaydi was in Russia last week and signed the accord in St. Petersburg with Alexander Fomin, the head of the Russian Federal Service on Military-Technical Cooperation, according to an Iraqi Defense Ministry release.

The Iraqi military needs multiple sources for weapons as it battles the Islamic State and other extremists,...

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