Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari meets with European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton (not seen) in Baghdad, June 17, 2013. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani
BAGHDAD/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Neighbouring Iraq warned that Syria's civil war is tearing the Middle East apart and Lebanon's president urged his country's Hezbollah movement on Thursday to pull its fighters out of the conflict.
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 the Syrian rebels.
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