Russia has sent another three Sukhoi Su-25 attack planes to Iraq said Iraq's Defense Ministry spokesman Nasir Nouri Mohammad al-Tamimi on Monday. "A batch of Su-25's has arrived in Iraq in accordance with the contract signed with the Russian side," he said, according to Russia's Tass news, adding that they will enter service in the near future. These planes will further bolster Iraq's ability to attack Islamic State (ISIS) from the air. When ISIS took over Mosul and went on a rampage across Northern Iraq in the summer of 2014, Russia delivered Su-25's to Baghdad. Iran also transferred its own fleet of Su-25's to Iraq (which were ironically obtained from Iraq by Tehran after they fled to Iran during the 1991 Persian Gulf War) to help Iraq combat that group. More recently Iraq also began taking delivery and putting into service the F-16 jet fighter-bombers it bought from the United States.
