Members of the Saudi border guard hold a machine gun mounted on a military truck positioned on Saudi Arabia’s northern border with Iraq July 14. Iraqi officials confirmed reports of mistreatment of Iraqi minorities in the areas controlled by Islamist militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, who control vast swathes of territory across five Iraqi provinces north and west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. (CNS photo/Faisal Nasser, Reuters) (July 16, 2014) See IRAQ-RELEASED (UPDATED) July 16, 2014.