Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari listens during an interview with Reuters in Baghdad June 18, 2013. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq is being buffeted by both sides in the civil war raging across its border in Syria and Baghdad's official policy of neutrality is at risk as the conflict spirals into a region-wide proxy war, its foreign minister said.
After two years of fighting that has killed more than 93,000 people, Syria's turmoil is dragging its neighbours into a deadly confrontation between Shi'ite Iran supporting President Bashar al-Assad and Sunni Arab Gulf nations backing Syrian rebels.
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