US Secretary of State John
Kerry hosted urgent
talks with Gulf
allies and Jordan on Thursday to address the widening crisis in Iraq, where Sunni Islamic extremists have seized a swathe of territory. Bringing together his counterparts from the largely Sunni nations of Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates,
Kerry pressed home "that the threat of ISIL is **t just to Iraq, it's to the region," a senior State Department official said. The top US diplomat also briefed them on his visit this week to Baghdad and Arbil, in **rthern Iraq, where he sought to persuade fractious Iraqi leaders to unify to save the country which risks tearing apart in the face of the militant threat. Militants from the Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant this week seized the main border crossing from
Iraq into Jordan, causing alarm in the Hashemite kingdom.
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