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.
06-15-2014, 07:31 PM
India concerned about events in Iraq
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