#Iraq PM accuses Kurds of providing cover for militants in Erbil
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Iraqi Prime Minister #Nouri_al-Maliki said on Wednesday the Kurdish-controlled city of Erbil was becoming an operations base for the #Islamic_State militant group that seized swathes of northern and western Iraq last month. Maliki is under pressure as militants, led by the #al-Qaeda offshoot Islamic State, hold large parts of the north and west of the country and have threatened to march on the capital. “We will never be silent about Erbil becoming a base for the operations of the Islamic State and Baathists and al-Qaeda and the terrorists,” Maliki said in his weekly televised address. read more