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Iraq aims to retake key northern town in hours

Wed Jun 18, 2014 18:37:58

Iraq aims to complete the liberation of the strategic northern town of Tal Afar from Takfiri militants in a matter of hours, a security spokesman says.

ISIL militants attack Iraq’s biggest oil refinery

Wed Jun 18, 2014 16:56:27

Members of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group have attacked a main oil refinery in Iraq as they press ahead with their offensive in the war-torn country.

Gruesome video: ISIL terrorists execute Iraqi soldiers

Wed Jun 18, 2014 11:45:23

ISIL terrorists taking-over parts of Iraq make no bones about broadcasting their reign of terror.

Another blow for Turkey, 15 Turkish workers held by ISIL in Iraq

Wed Jun 18, 2014 11:06:40

A group of Turkish construction workers were among some 60 people abducted by ISIL terrorists near the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, less than a week after dozens of other Turkish nationals were taken hostage in Mosul, according to a news report.

ISIL war crimes may trigger regional sectarian war: UN

Wed Jun 18, 2014 09:15:03

The Middle East appears on the brink of wider sectarian war engulfing Iraq and Syria with radical terrorists wantonly kidnapping, torturing and killing civilians, UN human rights investigators says.

‘Is ISIL really ‘Sunni’? Not at all’

Wed Jun 18, 2014 07:39:02

The Western media describes ISIL – the ultra-extremist terrorists destabilizing Iraq and Syria – as “Sunni militants.”

Two million volunteered to fight against ISIL: Iraqi minister

Tue Jun 17, 2014 20:56:29

More than 2 million Iraqis have volunteered to fight against militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Iraqi Energy Minister Hussein al-Shahristani says.

Hundreds of ISIL terrorists, top commander killed in Iraq airstrikes: Video

Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:26:33

More than 350 ISIL terrorists have been killed in airstrikes in the western province of al-Anbar, the Iraqi army's regional operations command says.

Turkey paying price for supporting terrorists in Syria

Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:43:49

After capturing Mosul in Iraq’s north, the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant raided the Turkish consulate, the only diplomatic mission in the city, and took 49 people hostage, including Consul General Ozturk Yilmaz.

ISIL militants threaten US, UK with terror attacks

Tue Jun 17, 2014 10:22:59

Terror alerts, 9/11-style bombings and murders of British citizens will soon come to London’s streets, according to chilling threats from UK citizens fighting alongside with the so-called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the most violent terrorist group operating in Syria and Iraq.

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