Uprooted by the violence, the displaced live in “cruel and difficult” conditions, the country’s top Shi’ite cleric said in Friday sermon, criticizing Iraqi and international agencies for ignoring their plight.
“The institutions concerned with this are still not meeting the scale of the hardships and suffering, despite the promises that we heard of help,” Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani said in a sermon delivered by an aide the Shi’ite holy city of Karbala.
Security sources and witnesses said fighting continued on Friday in several towns north of Baghdad. Near the military base at Muqdadiya, 50 miles (80 km) north of the capital, militants blew up a bridge to prevent Kurdish Shi’ite tribes bringing reinforcements to confront them, they said.
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