UN panel: Syria, Iraq edging into regional war

By John Heilprin

Published June 17, 2014 2:38pm ET

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UN panel: Syria, Iraq edging into regional war — Iraqi federal policemen watch as Shiite tribal fighters deploy with their weapons in the northwest Baghdad's Shula neighborhood, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) | Karim Kadim

GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. commission on Syrian war crimes is sounding the alarm that the entire region is on the brink of war.

In its latest report Tuesday to the U.N. Human Rights Council, the commission said “a regional war in the Middle East draws ever closer” as Sunni insurgents advance across Iraq to control areas bridging the Iraq-Syria frontier — drawing in Washington and Tehran.

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