Josh Rogin & Eli Lake report in Bloomberg that:
The U.S. military and Iranian-backed Shiite militias are getting closer and closer in Iraq, even sharing a base, while Iran uses those militias to expand its influence in Iraq and fight alongside the Bashar al-Assad regime in neighboring Syria.
The unlikely neighbors are:
… both using the Taqqadum military base in Anbar, the same Iraqi base where President Obama is sending an additional 450 U.S. military personnel to help train the local forces fighting against the Islamic State.
Hard to imagine that relations are especially cordial since:
Some of the Iran-backed Shiite militias at the base have killed American soldiers in the past.
