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Sunni militants advance in Iraq
Sunni militants have advanced in western Iraq and killed 21 people after security forces withdrew from several towns, as US President Barack Obama warned the offensive could spill over into other regional nations.
The government said its forces made a “tactical” withdrawal from the towns, control of which allows the militants to open a strategic route to neighbouring Syria where they also hold wathes of countryside along the Euphrates river valley. ISIL aims to create an Islamic state incorporating both Iraq and Syria, where the group has become a major force in the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad. Washington wants Arab states to bring pressure on Iraq’s leaders to speed up government formation, which has made little headway since April elections, and has tried to convince them ISIL poses as much of a threat to them as to Iraq.
The seizure of Al-Qaim leaves just one of three official border crossings with Syria in federal government hands. The third is controlled by Kurdish forces. Militants already hold areas of the western desert province of Anbar which abuts the Syrian border, after capturing this year all of one city and parts of another. Near Anbar’s capital Ramadi, parts of which re held by anti-government fighters, a suicide bombing and a car bomb killed six people and wounded eight, officials said.
Bangladesh sentence eight to death in bombing case
Judge Ruhul Amin told a packed court that six others had been sentenced to life in prison for the bombing that killed 10 people and injured dozens of others at a park in downtown Dhaka during the Bengali New Year celebration in 2001. The leader of the banned group Harkatul Jihad, Mufti Abdul, is among those sentenced to death. A younger brother of a Cabinet member of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia was also sentenced to death. Four of the accused were tried in absentia.
