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Iraqi’s take part in a funeral for a man said to have been killed during fighting in Syria’s Sit Zeinab neighbourhood on the southern outskirts of Damascus, in Basra on May 6, 2013. AFP Photo/Razmi Al-Shaban
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 12, 2013 | Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The government of Iraq made its first implicit admission of the presence of Iraqi fighters in neighboring Syria on Tuesday. Ali Musawi, media advisor to Iraqi prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki, said: “The Iraqi government is committed to a policy...