The fall of the major northern Iraqi city of Mosul to insurgents must push the country’s leaders to work together and deal with the “mortal threat” facing Iraq, the country’s foreign minister said Wednesday. Speaking in Athens on the sidelines of a meeting of European Union and Arab League foreign ministers, Hoshyar Zebari said he had assured his colleagues there would be “closer cooperation” between Baghdad and the Kurdistan regional government to push the insurgents out of Mosul. Most of the city was seized Tuesday in a major assault by al-Qaida-inspired militants known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, who took control of government buildings and pushed out security forces as thousands of residents fled. Zebari said it was “dramatic” for a large city like Mosul to fall and the security forces to be overrun, but added he was confident Iraqi security forces, along with […]