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Iraq crisis: UN 'deplores' militants' capture of cities

The UN Security Council has condemned attacks by Islamist militants in two major Iraqi cities, Mosul and Tikrit.

It said the humanitarian situation around Mosul, where up to 500,000 people have fled, was "dire and is worsening by the moment".

Government forces have stalled the militants' advance near Samarra, a city just 110km (68 miles) north of Baghdad.

The US says it is considering further assistance to Iraq in fighting the militants, without giving details.

The Sunni Muslim insurgents, led by an al-Qaeda offshoot called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), have been consolidating positions in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown, which they took on Wednesday, after capturing Mosul, Iraq's second city.

Forces led by ISIS, which is also known as ISIL, also control a large swathe of territory in eastern Syria and western and central Iraq, in a campaign to set up a Sunni militant enclave straddling the border.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27806094

As Iraq Unravels, Calls for American Action Grow Louder
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/iraq-t ... er-n129516

Very scary and difficult days with threats from Isis in Iraq .

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/09/opini ... le_sidebar

The Isis threaten to destroy Shia shrines. He USA and Alqaeda are worried, and. These Isis are known to be more brutal . If these 2 are scared we should be too.

The blame is on Shia Arabs of Iraq contributed to gain hatred from the Sunni

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Bohra spring wrote: The blame is on Shia Arabs of Iraq

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... -isis.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ira ... 33396.html

The lost moral of Islam’s divide

With the exception of the Quran, there are no religious or historical references that the Sunnis and Shias agree on

The Sunni-Shia divide is increasingly engulfing Muslim societies in many parts of the world in spasms of internecine violence. The latest developments in Iraq with the Islamic State of Iraq and [Greater] Syria (ISIS) making rapid advances towards Baghdad are an ominous reflection of the deepening of sectarian animosities within contemporary Islam. The potential impact of the current turbulence will be felt far beyond West Asia and North Africa. The developments also indicate — especially in light of the marginalisation of the Muslim Brotherhood and other mainstream Islamist outfits in Egypt, Syria and to a limited extent in Tunisia — that political Islam or Islamism will now be championed with much more lethal effect by groups that profess allegiance to radical Salafism, such as the ISIS.

Iran will do all it can to stop the ISIS warriors in their tracks. ISIS will be happy to eradicate the Islamic Republic of Iran. But both will marshal the same set of arguments for the establishment and perpetuation of an Islamic state as well as for the disempowerment of each other in their respective spheres of influence.

In Iraq, for instance, Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and his cohorts will be perfectly happy to replicate the Iranian Vilayat-e-Faqih model of state in Iraq and disenfranchise the Sunni minority. The ISIS will be delighted to establish their model of Islamic state and disenfranchise the Shia majority. Both parties will advance the same arguments to justify and Islamise their brutalities. Creation of a hell here in the name of the hereafter is the fundamental objective of all varieties of Islamism, despite their invocation of justice and divine will in every other sentence they write or speak.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/t ... epage=true