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Islamist militants are closing in on Baghdad after capturing two towns north of Iraq’s capital. Officials said Iraqi soldiers abandoned their posts with no resistance when fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) pushed into Diyala province. Militants driving machine gun-mounted pickups entered the towns of ...

Shocking images have emerged of the mass execution of Iraqi soldiers detained by militants from the jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The photographs, released on one of ISIL’s own Twitter feeds, show dozens of Shiite soldiers being driven in trucks to a rural area where they ...