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#sistani calls on Iraqi civilians to fight #ISIS
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Iraqi men who volunteered to join the fight against a major offensive by jihadists in northern #Iraq stand on army trucks as they leave a recruiting center in the capital Baghdad on June 13, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Ali al-Saadi) Iraqi men who volunteered to join the fight against a major offensive by jihadists in northern Iraq stand on army trucks as they leave a recruiting center in the capital Baghdad on June 13, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Ali al-Saadi)

Top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called Friday for Iraqis to take up arms against “terrorists” who have overrun swathes of the country in a major offensive. "Citizens who are able to bear arms and fight terrorists, defending their country and their people and their (...)

Iraqi helicopters attack jihadi convoy across Syrian border
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Iraqi army helicopters attacked a jihadi convoy inside eastern #syria on Sunday as it tried to approach the border, killing at least eight people, an interior ministry spokesman said. “The army struck eight tanker trucks in Wadi Suwab inside Syrian territory as they were trying to enter Iraqi territory to provide the Islamic State of #Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) with fuel,” Brigadier General Saad Maan said. It was the first time Iraq’s military has said it carried out an attack in Syria, and Maan said “there was no coordination with the Syrian regime” over the strike. read more

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#turkey opens fire on #ISIS convoy
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The Turkish army said Wednesday it had opened fire on a convoy of vehicles in northern #syria belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadist group. The army said the attack, carried out Tuesday, came after two Turkish military vehicles had been fired upon at the Cobanbey border post in the south of the country. “A pick-up, a truck and a bus in an ISIS convoy were destroyed,” read the statement, published by Turkish media. There were no casualties on the Turkish side. read more

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