#Baghdad calls for #US aerial intervention in growing conflict
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In this image released by the US Navy, sailors direct an F/A-18C Hornet on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush during flight operations in the Arabian Gulf on June 17, 2014. (Photo: AFP / US Navy - Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Maggie Keith)
Baghdad has called for US air strikes on militants who attacked #Iraq's main oil refinery and seized more territory in the north, putting US President Barack Obama under pressure Thursday amid warnings the country could unravel. The White House said Obama has not ruled out such strikes after a lightning eight-day offensive by fighters led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), that has seen them rapidly bear down on the capital. read (...)
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