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46 Indian nurses trapped in a hospital in Tikrit were forcibly moved by the ISIL.
The project to partition Iraq into its disparate ethnic constituencies was seen as a security imperative by more than one Middle Eastern power.
The White House is pressuring the Iraqi PM to be more inclusive of Sunni political aspirations.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki on Tuesday sacked some senior security officers for their failing to halt the advance of Sunni insurgent groups.
The US and UN will begin to relocate some personnel from Iraq to neighbouring Jordan.
The US should steer clear of greater military involvement in Iraq, writes Dreyfuss.
Russian FM Lavrov says Moscow warned the US and UK that adventurism in Iraq would not end well.
The unabated violence comes just over a month after millions of Iraqis voted in the first general elections since US forces left the country.
The Iraqi prime minister is under pressure to end the Al-Qaeda threat before Iraqis head to the polls for fresh elections in April.
“This is a fight that belongs to the Iraqis,” the US Secretary of State told reporters.
