Salahadin, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, (krp.org)- President Masoud Barzani received Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, the Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon at his office in Salahadin today. Patriarch Sako was a accompanied by a delegation of clergymen from the Nineveh plains and other parts of Iraq. 

President Barzani warmly welcomed the delegation and reiterated his support for the Christian community of Mosul who have recently been subjected to a number of acts of violence in the hands of the ISIS terrorists. The President stated that the Kurdistan Region will continue to support the fleeing Christians and will utterly condemned the ISIS acts of terrorism against the Christians of the Nineveh plains. President Barzani said that "we will all either die together or we will live together with dignity," adding that the terrorist are a common enemy.

Patriarch Sako and the accompanying delegation expressed their gratitude to President Barzani and to the Kurdistan Region's stance of support, praying to an end of the current crisis in Mosul. 

Tehran-IRNA- Nazem Dabbagh the representative of Kordistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq in Islamic Republic of Iran stated: in our view Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) is a dangerous terrorist complex …. We deem it our duty to defend our regions and whole Iraq against this terrorist squad action.

He continued: we are in favor of Iraq Army to this terrorist complex and deem to defend Iraq our duty, but we have received no demand of help on behalf of the Army.

Presently Kurdish Pishmerga forces are watching out all regions of Kurd like Senjar and Jula, as strengthening our position, we have established a defend line against possible attacks of ISIS so that we can stop their possible progressing, he said.

According to current reports he continued: in the progress of these attacks the number of ISIS forces amounted to over 100000 people; however they could take up several central regions of Iraq.