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Cairo - A senior state department official says US Secretary of State John Kerry will discuss possible oil disruptions from the Iraq conflict
with Gulf countries this week.
Kerry is on a tour of countries in the Middle East and Europe and is expected to travel to Iraq soon at the request of President Barack Obama.
"I would expect that to be a topic of discussion," a senior State Department official told reporters en route to Egypt when asked about possible oil supply disruptions from the Iraq conflict.
Civil war
Sunni fighters have seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers a century ago in the Islamists' campaign to create a Caliphate from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran.
The fighting, with strong sectarian overtones, is pushing the country towards civil war.
Iraq's largest refinery, Baiji, 200km north of the capital near Tikrit, has been transformed into a battlefield.
