Top U.S. diplomat Kerry asks Iraq to stop arms to Syria

By Arshad Mohammed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Sunday and said he told Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of his concern about Iranian flights over Iraq carrying arms to Syria. Kerry also urged Iraq's Sunni Muslim, Shi'ite and ethnic Kurdish factions to commit to the political process as the country's precarious intercommunal balance comes under growing strain from the conflict in neighbouring Syria. A U.S. ...