...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...has expressed support for the government of Iraqi Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014...
in its war against the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
(ISIL) terrorist group.
According to a statement released by the Kremlin, the two leaders spoke on the phone on Friday as Maliki informed Putin about the measures of his government to drive out the snuffies from the northern parts of the country.
"Putin confirmed Russia's complete support for the efforts of the Iraqi government to speedily liberate the territory of the republic from terrorists," the statement read.
"It was noted that the activities of bully boyz conducting military operations on the territory of Syria has taken on a cross-border character and now threaten the security of the whole region," the statement added.
On June 10, the ISIL snuffies took control of the Nineveh lovely provincial capital djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
. They later took control of the city of Tikrit, located some 140 kilometers (87 miles) northwest of the capital Storied Baghdad.
Iraqi armed forces have managed to regain control of the Abu Tayban region in the city of Ramadi and almost all parts of the strategic town of Tal Afar in Nineveh province.
Iraqi soldiers have also regained control of the Baiji oil refinery in the strategic Salahuddin province after the ISIL snuffies attacked the oil facility earlier this week.
The ISIL snuffies have vowed to continue their raid towards Storied Baghdad.