This handout picture released by the US Navy shows aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) sailing in the Arabian Sea on Friday. The United States has ordered an aircraft carrier, the USS George H.W. Bush, into the Gulf in response to the crisis in Iraq, the Pentagon said. AFP PHOTO
This handout picture released by the US Navy shows aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) sailing in the Arabian Sea on Friday. The United States has ordered an aircraft carrier, the USS George H.W. Bush, into the Gulf in response to the crisis in Iraq, the Pentagon said. AFP PHOTO

BAGHDAD: Iraq on Sunday pressed a counter-offensive against militants who have seized a swathe of the country, as former United Nations mediator Lakhdar Brahimi blamed the sweeping unrest on world neglect of the Syrian conflict.

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