In other Iraq news, the US embassy in Baghdad has condemned recent attacks on Iraqi Christians in the city of Mosul. Over 3,000 Christians have fled the city due to a wave of killings and kidnappings. Christians from Mosul say they have been the victims of a systematic plan to cleanse them from the area.

Iraqi Woman: “We are seven to eight families from Mosul. We came here after a regrettable attack, a killing of a father and his son in al-Sediq area. What did we do? What is the government’s stance in regard to this incident? There has been a month of killing of Christians and bombing of their houses. What did those families do? They became homeless with no food, no drink, no clothes, no supplies and no money. What did we do? Where shall we go? We want to return back to our homes.”