Secretary of State John Kerry is in Baghdad Sunday on an unannounced visit following President Obama's Mideast tour.
NPR's Michele Kelemen, who's traveling with Kerry, tells our Newscast Desk that Syria is on his agenda:
The Associated Press reports the overflights "have long been a source of contention between the U.S. and Iraq." Iraq promised to inspect the flights last year, the AP says, but an official says only two have been checked since then."He's ... pressing [Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki] to crack down on, as one official put it, 'the nearly daily Iranian flights over Iraqi territory to Syria.' The U.S. accuses Iran of shipping weapons to Bashar al-Assad's regime and is warning Iraq that these shipments are fueling the conflict and are dangerous to the region."
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