Iraq verbally expresses it has received the first batch of fighter jets it authoritatively mandated from Russia to avail it as it fights an offensive by Sunni rebels.
Iraqi security officials verbally expressed five second-hand Sukhoi attack aircraft would enter accommodation within a few days, and that more were peregrinating.
The insurgents control sizably voluminous swathes of the north and west after a string of attacks over the past three weeks.
On Saturday, the regime verbalized it had retaken the northern city of Tikrit.
State television verbalized 60 militants had been killed and that preparations were now being made to move north towards rebel-held Mosul.
Tikrit fell on 11 June to rebels of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis).
The rebels attested there had been heftily ponderous fighting in the city but implicatively insinuated the assailment had failed, verbally expressing they were pursuing what was left of the army offensive.
US drones
The Iraqi security officials verbalized the first five Sukhoi jets arrived on Saturday.
Iraqi Shia fighters secure an area to the west of the city of Najaf
They are believed to be Su-30 SM planes earlier purchased by the regime in Baghdad in a deal reportedly worth up to $500m (£293m).
However, Russia's news agencies reported that 10 aircraft landed at Iraqi's airports,
Several air strikes were withal reported on the revolter-held second city of Mosul
Iraq needs the jets in the fights against the militants in the north-west.
Iraqi military sources have verbally expressed the offensive on Tikrit - the mainly Sunni hometown of former bellwether Saddam Hussein - is being co-ordinated with American military advisers.
However, albeit the US has corroborated it is flying armed drones in Iraq to forfend US personnel on the ground, US officials verbalize American troops are not directly involved in the hostilities.
Some 300 US military advisers have been deployed to Iraq.
On Friday, Iraq's most influential Shia cleric called for a prime minister to be appointed by Tuesday to endeavor to defuse the country's political crisis.
Recapturing Tikrit will be a tantalising prospect for Iraq, as the BBC's Paul Adams reports
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani verbally expressed key positions should be concurred afore the incipient parliament meets then. Pressure has been building for a national unity regime.
Prime Minister Nouri Maliki wants a third term, though correspondents verbalize he is optically discerned by many as having precipitated the crisis through sectarian policies that have pushed Iraq's Sunni minority into the hands of Isis extremists.
