DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad as Sunni insurgents expand their control of towns across north-western Iraq.

In Egypt on Sunday, Kerry warned that Sunni militants Isis’ ‘ideology of violence and repression is a threat not only to Iraq but to the entire region’.

On Sunday rebels, spearheaded by Isis militants, captured border crossings to Syria and Jordan.

The strategically important airport in the northern Tal Afar has also fallen.

The town controls the main road from the Syrian border to Mosul, Iraq’s second biggest city, which was captured by the rebels two weeks ago.

Officials said the rebels of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant took two key crossings in Anbar on Sunday, a day after seizing one at Qaim, a town in the province that borders Syria.

BDST: 1404 HRS, JUNE 23, 2014