#ISIS tightens control of #Mosul, seizes oil refinery town
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Iraqi families fleeing violence in the northern Nineveh province gather at a Kurdish checkpoint in Aski kalak, 40 kilometers West of Arbil, in the autonomous Kurdistan region, on June 10, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Safin Hamed)
Jihadis were firmly in control of #Iraq's Mosul on Wednesday, patrolling the streets and calling for employees to return to work a day after seizing the northern city, witnesses said, as an estimated 500,000 residents fled the city. Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) overran Mosul and a string of northern towns on Tuesday, in a major blow to the Iraqi government that the United States warned threatens the entire region. read (...)