Iraqi security forces encounter burning debris on patrol, as ISIL increase Iraq gains
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Kirkuk's police chief and security forces faced burning and abandoned vehicles as they patrolled the road near Hawaija on Wednesday (June 11).
Sunni insurgents from an al Qaeda splinter group advanced into Iraq's biggest oil refinery on Wednesday after seizing the northern city of Mosul in a devastating show of strength against the Shi'ite-led government.
Security sources said militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) -- Sunni militants waging sectarian war on both sides of the Iraqi-Syrian frontier, drove into the town of Baiji late on Tuesday in armed vehicles, torching the court house and police station after freeing prisoners.
ISIL also advanced into areas south of Kirkuk province on the borders with Mosul and took control of a number of areas in Hawaija districts before taken back by police and army forces.
Reuter
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Kirkuk's police chief and security forces faced burning and abandoned vehicles as they patrolled the road near Hawaija on Wednesday (June 11).
Sunni insurgents from an al Qaeda splinter group advanced into Iraq's biggest oil refinery on Wednesday after seizing the northern city of Mosul in a devastating show of strength against the Shi'ite-led government.
Security sources said militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) -- Sunni militants waging sectarian war on both sides of the Iraqi-Syrian frontier, drove into the town of Baiji late on Tuesday in armed vehicles, torching the court house and police station after freeing prisoners.
ISIL also advanced into areas south of Kirkuk province on the borders with Mosul and took control of a number of areas in Hawaija districts before taken back by police and army forces.
Reuter