CREDIT: REUTERS/FAISAL AL NASSER
(Reuters) – Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said on Wednesday that the deteriorating security situation in Iraq shows signs of a “civil war”.
“This grave situation that is storming Iraq carries with it the signs of civil war whose implications for the region we cannot fathom,” he told a gathering of Arab and Muslim leaders in Jeddah.
The advance of al Qaeda-linked militants stunned the Shi’ite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki last week, whose forces quit several northern Iraqi towns.
(Reporting by Noah Browning and Rania El Gamal; editing by Jason Neely)