Video: ISIS Shows Off Tanks Seized From Former U.S. Base In Tikrit, (+Graphic Pics)
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| Taking no prisoners: A man is executed by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as the Al Qaeda-inspired militants continue their march towards Baghdad |
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Via Telegraph:
Less than 24 hours later the oil-rich city of
Tikrit was captured by the militants, who then turned their attentions
to the capital as it pushes ahead with its aim to overthrow the
western-backed government as part of its goal to create an Islamic
emirate spanning both sides of the Iraq-Syria border
Kurdistan's Peshmerga soldiers secure an area in
Kirkuk city - the move was a victory for them as they have fought over
the land for years
Kurdish security forces deploy outside of the
oil-rich city of Kirkuk. Kurds have long dreamed of taking Kirkuk, a
city with huge oil reserves just outside their autonomous region, which
they regard as their historical capital
The man is led to his death. ISIS spokesman Abu
Mohammed al-Adnani today promised that the battle would 'rage' on
Baghdad and Karbala, a city southwest of the capital. So far government
forces have stalled the militants' remarkably rapid advance near
Samarra, a city just 110km (68 miles) north of Baghdad
A man is executed in a propaganda video
released this morning by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as the
Al Qaeda-inspired militants continue their march towards Baghdad
An abandoned Iraqi security forces vehicle is
pictured on a road in Tikrit. There were no reliable estimates of
casualties or the number of insurgents involved, though several hundred
gunmen were in Tikrit and more were fighting on the outskirts, said
Mizhar Fleih, the deputy head of the municipal council of nearby Samarra
Kurdish peshmerga forces take control of Toz
Khormato after ISIS take control of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul,
and attacked the city of Kirkuk
The remains of a burnt out Iraqi army vehicles
are seen at the Kukjali Iraqi Army checkpoint, some 10km of east of the
northern city of Mosul
Burnt vehicles belonging to Iraqi security
forces are pictured at a checkpoint in east Mosul, two days after
radical Sunni Muslim insurgents seized control of the city
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Refugees: The girls above were pictured today in
a refugee camp hastily established in Kurdistan. They are just two of
the 500,000 fleeing the fighting
Smiling through the suffering: An Iraqi family
(left) and two children (right) smile and play in the dusty camp -
despite having been forced from their homes just days ago
Construction works to set up camps for the
people fleeing Mosul after the city was seized by Islamic State in Iraq
and the Levant
The International Organization for Migration
estimated that 500,000 people fled the Mosul area, with some seeking
safety in the Ninevah countryside or the nearby semiautonomous Kurdish
region
Iraqis who fled the violence in Mosul stand in a queue at a checkpoint in Erbil, Kurdistan region
Iraqi refugees from Mosul arrive at Khazir refugee camp outside Irbil, 217 miles (350 kilometres) north of Baghdad
Thousands of people who fled Iraq's second city
of Mosul after it was overrun by jihadists wait in the blistering heat,
hoping to enter the safety of the nearby Kurdish region and furious at
Baghdad's failure to help them
Iraqi children fleeing violence in the northern Nineveh province sleep in a tent at a temporary camp
An Iraqi Kurdish security guard waits to check
the ID cards of Iraqi families fleeing violence in the northern Nineveh
province as they gather at a Kurdish checkpoint in Aski Kalak, 40km west
of Arbil
Mourners carry the coffin of a victim killed by a
suicide bomber who blew himself up inside a tent filled with mourners
in Baghdad, during a funeral in Najaf, south of Baghdad
The suicide bomber blew himself up inside a tent
filled with mourners in a predominantly Sunni district of Baghdad,
killing at least 16 people, police and medical sources have said
