Iraq PM says allies not doing enough to counter Islamic State


  • World
  • Tuesday, 02 Jun 2015

File photo of Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi (L) as he shakes hands with a Sunni tribesman at Camp Habbaniyah, in the eastern city of Ramadi April 8, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer

PARIS (Reuters) - Iraq's prime minister on Tuesday accused the international coalition fighting Islamic State of not doing enough to tackle the group, and said important members such as Saudi Arabia are not curbing the flow of foreign fighters to his country.

Western and Middle Eastern countries in the coalition are meeting this week in Paris. Part of their agenda is to persuade the Iraqi government to repair its relationship with Iraq's Sunni minority.

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