BAGHDAD: Britain is close to identifying a suspected British national shown beheading American journalist James Foley in a video released by Islamic State militants last week, the British ambassador to the United States said on Sunday.
With Islamic State fighters now in control of vast areas of northern Iraq, the country's prime minister-designate, Haider al-Abadi, used a meeting with the visiting Iranian foreign minister to call for greater international efforts to destroy the Islamist group.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran, likely to wield influence over the formation of Abadi's new cabinet, reaffirmed Tehran's support for Iraq's territorial unity and its fight against militants.
"Abadi pointed to the presence of many dangers posed in the region as a result of the existence of the radical Islamic State, which requires regional and international efforts to exterminate this organisation," the Abadi's office said in a statement after the talks with Zarif.
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