"Al-Qaeda offshoot" takes control of Iraqi town

According to some reports, hundreds of thousands of people are believed to have fled the Iraqi town of Mosul after ISIS fighters took control of it.

Izvor: BBC

Wednesday, 11.06.2014.

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"Al-Qaeda offshoot" takes control of Iraqi town

"The situation is chaotic inside the city and there is nobody to help us. We are afraid," the BBC on Tuesday quoted government worker Umm Karam.

Iraqi army and police fled the town, as "hundreds of jihadists from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) overran it," the BBC said.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has asked parliament to declare a state of emergency that would allow the authorities to " broaden arrest powers, allow curfews, and a general mobiliozation of civilians."

The United States have warned that "ISIS threatens not just Iraq, but the entire region."

"ISIS is also actively fighting in neighboring eastern Syria to establish its control there, apparently aiming to straddle the border with an Islamic state," the BBC noted in its report.

It added that Iraqi Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi said that all of Nineveh province had fallen to the militants who were now heading south towards Salaheddin province.

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