The United Nations special envoy to Iraq Wednesday called for military force to be used against the advancing ISIS militants in the North and East of Iraq.
Nickolay Mladenov said that instability in the North and East must be dealt with militarily though overall success would depend on a broad political solution, reports Reuters.
"The part of the crisis that has been caused by the advances of ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) must be addressed militarily," Mladenov told reporters.
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