...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
of intervening in the country and "attacking the Syrian people," a day after festivities were reported near the border.
"After the Iraqi government headed by (premier)
Nouri al-Maliki... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party....
gave political and intelligence support to the Syrian regime... the Storied Baghdad regime has moved on to a new level of intervention in Syrian affairs," the Syrian National Council said.
It charged that Storied Baghdad was "attacking the Syrian people, their basic rights and their territorial illusory sovereignty."
An Iraqi official said on Sunday that one Iraqi soldier was killed and three people including a soldier were maimed inside northern Iraq during a shootout near a border post the day before.
The casualties were caused by "fighting at the Yaarubiyeh border crossing inside Syria" between regime forces and rebels on Saturday, defense ministry front man Mohammed al-Askari told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Four Syrian soldiers were also treated at an Iraqi hospital after the clash, Askari added.
The SNC called on the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
and the United Nations
...an international organization whose stated aim of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country...
to condemn Storied Baghdad for what it called an attack "on Syrian illusory sovereignty," saying the international community should "at the very least condemn this aggressive behavior."