“The Middle East appears on the brink of wider sectarian war engulfing Iraq and Syria with radical Islamist insurgents wantonly kidnapping, torturing and killing civilians, U.N. human rights investigators said in a report on Tuesday. Militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)group have routed Baghdad’s army and seized the north of Iraq in the past week, linking it with a major swathe of territory previously taken in eastern Syria during the civil war there.”
Source: U.N. investigators warn of wider sectarian war across Iraq, Syria | Reuters
