Good morning, welcome back to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford. Al qaedas effort to exploit the lack of security in iraq and syria appears to be gaining traction. In iraq two cities are under siege by Al Qaedalinked fighters. More alarming is the violence could set off an allout sectarian war as sunni anger towards the shialed government intensifie intensifies. Despite how bad the fighting has gotten secretary of state john kerry says, this is a fight that belongs to the iraqis, we are not contemplating returning. Al qaedalinked groups have taken control of fallujah. The other province, ramadi, is under siege. It was one of the most dangerous places during the iraq war, where 1300 Coalition Soldiers were killed. The the group calls its the Islamic State of levant and wants to set up a sunni state in iraq, and across the border in syria and other countries. Its taken control of parts of syria. We go imran khan for more on the fighting. Fighters from the Al Qaedalinked state in the