Iraq’s Shia-dominated government launched air strikes on Sunni insurgent positions in and around the country’s second city of Mosul as Islamist forces hurtled toward the capital and Kurdish troops seized control of the key oil city of Kirkuk.
伊拉克什叶派(Shia)主导的政府对该国第二大城市摩苏尔(Mosul)及周围的逊尼派(Sunni)叛军阵地发动空袭。目前伊斯兰主义武装力量正向首都巴格达进军,而库尔德武装力量夺取了石油重镇基尔库克(Kirkuk)的控制权。
The latest moves by the country’s major ethnic and sectarian groups raised fears of a deepening of Iraq’s de facto partition into separate Shia, Kurdish and Sunni areas. “The state of Iraq is in imminent collapse,” said Faisal Istrabadi, Iraq’s former deputy ambassador to the UN.
伊拉克各大民族和教派组织的最新动作,令人担忧该国什叶派、库尔德人和逊尼派地区事实上的分割深化。“伊拉克作为一个国家即将崩溃,”曾担任伊拉克驻联合国副大使的费萨尔•伊斯特拉巴迪(Faisal Istrabadi)表示。