#jihadists battle for northern #Iraq #Turkmen town
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Turkmen families leave the village of Taza Khormato, south of the oil hub city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, fearing any escalation in fighting reaching their village, on June 16, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Marwan Ibrahim) Turkmen families leave the village of Taza Khormato, south of the oil hub city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, fearing any escalation in fighting reaching their village, on June 16, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Marwan Ibrahim)
Jihadist fighters gained ground on Monday in a battle for a strategic enclave in northern Iraq that provides a corridor to Syria, officials and residents said. Security forces insisted they had repelled an assault on Tal Afar, a Turkmen-majority town in Nineveh province, but multiple officials and a (...)
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