U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets the crew as he boards a plane at Jordan's Queen Alia International Airport in Amman, as he travels to Iraq June 23, 2014. REUTERS/Brendan Smialowski/Pool
DOHA (Reuters) - An influential Sunni Muslim cleric said on Monday that only dialogue could solve Iraq's crisis, sounding a conciliatory note on the threat posed by Sunni Islamist insurgents that could further polarise the Middle East along sectarian lines.
Fighters from the radical Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have seized a swathe of northern Iraqi towns, as well as border posts with Syria, in a thrust towards Baghdad, stunning the country's Shi'ite Muslim-led central government.
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