Syria and Iran willing to help US in Iraq

Syria and Iran are willing to help try to stabilise Iraq but they will want something in return and neither has a magic solution to the country’s bloodshed, Mideast officials and analysts said today after a US commission recommended such outreach.

The bipartisan Iraq Commission report warned that the situation in Iraq is “grave and deteriorating” and called for the administration to try to engage Syria and Iran as part of a diplomatic effort to bring stability.