” Sunni militants took control of an important Iraqi border crossing Saturday as they sustained their offensive against crumbling Iraqi government troops. Fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, an al-Qaeda offshoot, captured the crossing of Qaim on the border with Syria, dealing another setback to the shrinking authority of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government.”
Source: Sunni militias take control of key Iraqi border crossing – The Washington Post