UN Envoy Warns of Iraq’s ’Dangerous Path’

A UN envoy said Tuesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in Iraq in four months and that the country risks stumbling onto a “dangerous path” to disarray.

Martin Kobler, the outgoing UN special representative to Iraq, told the Security Council that political tensions and fallout from the Syria conflict have made the past four months among the bloodiest of the last five years.

“Nearly 3,000 men, women and children have been killed and over 7,000 more injured,” Kobler told the 15-nation council.