Wall Street Journal – by JAY SOLOMON, CAROL E. LEE and ALI A. NABHAN
The possible depth of the ISIS threat became clearer on Sunday when photos were posted on a Twitter TWTR +0.51% account associated with ISIS claiming to show Sunni militants carrying out a mass execution of captured Iraqi Shiite soldiers, raising the prospect of a broader sectarian war in Iraq.
The photographs, accompanied by captions boasting that as many as 1,700 soldiers had been executed, underscored the mounting sectarian animosity fueling the fighting between Sunni extremists and Mr. Maliki’s Shiite-dominated government. Continue reading “U.S., Iran Near Talks as Iraq Chaos Worsens”