John Kerry called on Iraq’s leaders to form a new government immediately that includes all the country’s political and religious factions, as the US secretary of state scrambled to head off the break-up of the country by a surging rebel alliance.
This should happen “not next week, not next month, but now”, Mr Kerry said at the heavily fortified US embassy in Baghdad, where he held talks with Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq’s Shia prime minister, and other leaders. Iraq was facing an “existential crisis”, he warned.
Mr Kerry suggested that the US might still conduct air strikes against fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known as Isis, even before the formation of a new government.
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