Ambush threatens to enmesh Iraq in Syria civil war

AFP
March 5, 2013

The killing of 48 Syrian soldiers in neighbouring Iraq threatens to entangle Baghdad in Syria’s civil war, a conflict in which it has sought to remain neutral.

A convoy carrying wounded Syrian soldiers was ambushed as it passed through Iraq’s western Anbar province on Monday en route to the Syrian border, where they were to be returned through “official channels,” the Iraqi defence ministry said.

Nine Iraqi guards were also killed, the ministry added.

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This article was posted: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 11:21 am

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