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Iraqi Prime Minister to Visit Iran to Discuss Fight Against IS: Press Service

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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi is to visit Tehran on Monday for talks with the leaders of Iran on coordinating efforts on the fight against Islamic State terrorist organization, the press service of the Iraqi government said Sunday.

BAGHDAD, October 19 (RIA Novosti) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi is to visit Tehran on Monday for talks with the leaders of Iran on coordinating efforts on the fight against Islamic State terrorist organization, the press service of the Iraqi government said Sunday.

"The tomorrow's visit of the head of the ministers cabinet will take place within the framework of association of regional and international efforts to assist Iraq in the fight against Daesh [Islamic State]," the statement said.

The visit is expected to last for one day.

The IS, also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), is a Sunni Islamist group that has been fighting the Syrian government since 2012.

The group expanded its attack to in Iraq in June 2014, seizing vast areas in both countries and announcing the establishment of an Islamic caliphate on the territories under its control. A US-led coalition is currently carrying out airstrikes against IS targets in Iraq and Syria.

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