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- Thousands of Shi'ites ready to fight in Syria, Iraqi says
By Samia Nakhoul and Suadad al-Salhy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Thousands of Shi'ite Muslims from Iraq and beyond will take up arms against Sunni al Qaeda "savages" in Syria if fellow Shi'ites or their shrines come under attack again, a powerful minister in Iraq's Shi'ite-led government said. It would be impossible to "sit idle while the Shi'ites are being attacked", while the United States and Western ...
June 21, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News - Iraq, Lebanon alarmed at spreading Syria war
By Samia Nakhoul and Dominic Evans BAGHDAD/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Neighboring Iraq warned that Syria's civil war is tearing the Middle East apart and Lebanon's president urged his country's Hezbollah movement on Thursday to pull its fighters out of the conflict. After two years of fighting that has killed more than 93,000 people, Syria's turmoil is dragging its neighbors into a deadly confrontation ...
June 21, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News - Iraq says proxy war over Syria threatens its neutrality
By Samia Nakhoul and Patrick Markey BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq is being buffeted by both sides in the civil war raging across its border in Syria and Baghdad's official policy of neutrality is at risk as the conflict spirals into a region-wide proxy war, its foreign minister said. After two years of fighting that has killed more than 93,000 people, Syria's turmoil is dragging its neighbors into a ...
June 20, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News