Maliki asks for state of emergency as ISIL overruns north Iraq

June 11 2014 09:42:39

Maliki asks for state of emergency as ISIL overruns north Iraq

MOSUL - Agence France-Presse

A file image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube on August 23, 2013 allegedly shows a member of Ussud Al-Anbar (Anbar Lions), a Jihadist group affiliated to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq, holding up the trademark black and white Islamist flag at an undisclosed location in Iraq's Anbar province. AFP PHOTO / YOUTUBE

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