Maliki urges international help to fight nations chaos

Iraq’s prime minister appealed today for international help to cut off networks aiding extremists and warned envoys from neighbours and world powers that Iraq’s growing sectarian bloodshed could spill across the Middle East.

“Iraqi has become a front-line battlefield,” prime minister Nouri Maliki told delegates at a groundbreaking conference in Baghdad that brought together Islamic nations including Iran and Western representatives led by the US.