Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Wednesday the Kurdish-controlled city of
Arbil was
becoming an operations
base for the Islamic State militant group that seized swathes of **rthern and western
Iraq last month. Maliki is under pressure as Sunni Muslim militants, led by the al Qaeda offshoot Islamic State, hold large parts of the **rth and west of the country and have threatened to march on the capital. "We will never be silent about
Arbil becoming a
base for the operations of the Islamic State and Baathists and Al Qaeda and the terrorists," Maliki said in his weekly televised address.
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