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Yahoo! News   Location: Washington, DC  QUESTION: Hi, everyone,
and welcome to a special Yahoo livestream from the State
Department with Secretary of State John Kerry. Secretary Kerry,
thank you so much for joining us.  SECRETARY KERRY: Happy to be
with you.  QUESTION: We're going to be talking about the oceans,
a subject near and dear to your heart in a moment, but of
course, there is a lot going on in Iraq --   QUESTION: -- so I
need to talk to you about that. The militant group called ISIS,
the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, has made considerable
gains, as you well know -- Mosul, Fallujah, Tikrit, now the
northern town of Tal Afar, among others, and parts of Syria.
This is the first time we've heard you talk extensively about
this topic. What is your reaction to all of this?  SECRETARY
KERRY: Well, it's of enormous concern, obviously, Katie. I mean,
this is a challenge to the stabil