New Delhi, June 14 (IANS)
India is watching with concern and consternation
events unfold in Iraq, the world's newest violence hot spot where Al Qaeda-linked Sunni militants have overrun large swathes of area, even while it maintains flourishing trading ties with Baghdad. "We are watching the
events unfold in Iraq. On Friday, Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani exhorted all able-bodied Iraqis to take up arms as advancing militants of the Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) took more towns and were marching towards Baghdad. The US has ruled out sending US troops into combat in
Iraq but said it was studying other military options, like military air strikes.
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