John Kerry Arrives in Iraq as More Cities Fall to ISIS
By Chelsea J. Carter and Holly Yan, CNN
Middle East • 6/23/14 2:58:05 am • Views: 543
As radical Sunni militants snatch city after city in their march to Baghdad, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Iraq on Monday during the country’s tensest time since the U.S. withdrawal of troops.
He’ll meet with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the man some say needs to step down.
With al-Maliki’s Shiite-led government losing more ground to militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Kerry has implored the leader to rise above “sectarian motivations” to become more inclusive and more representative of its population.
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