There were reports of sectarian violence in Iraq Tuesday as President Obama weighs options for combatting the militants known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
About 170 U.S. troops have already arrived in Baghdad, and another 100 U.S. personnel are outside Iraq to assist, Rear Admiral John Kirby said in a statement from the Pentagon on Monday, the Guardian reports.
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The move was triggered by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria's (ISIS) sudden success in Iraq, including a series of bombings this weekend, and an unconfirmed mass execution of Iraqi government soldiers.
On Tuesday, the sectarian violence continued as 44 Sunni prisoners were killed in a government-controlled police station in Baquba, a city north of Baghdad. The bodies of four men who were shot and killed were dumped on a Baghdad street in an area controlled by Shiite militia.
The Iraqi military said that the Sunni inmates were killed after attackers shot at the facility, but neither account was confirmed. A local morgue official told the Associated Press that many of the detainees had bullet wounds to the head and chest.
The allegation of killings of Sunnis by Shiites resembles the sectarian warfare that previously plagued Iraq.
Shiites have also accused Sunni militants of atrocities in areas of Iraq that they have captured over the past week.
Throughout Baghdad, men have lined up to volunteer for military service.
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