Insurgency shakes Iraq

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Updated On Jun 12, 2014 11:57 pm IST

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Kirkuk province's Kurdish governor Najim al-Din Omar Karim, wearing a bullet-proof vest and holding a helmet in his hand, listens to a commander of the Peshmerga forces as their troops were being deployed on the main road between Kirkuk, Mosul. (AFP photo)

Updated on Jun 12, 2014 11:57 pm IST

Kirkuk province's Kurdish governor Najim al-Din Omar Karim, wearing a bullet-proof vest and holding a helmet in his hand, listens to a commander of the Peshmerga forces as their troops were being deployed on the main road between Kirkuk, Mosul. (AFP photo)

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Mourners grieve near the coffin of a victim killed by a suicide bomber who blew himself up inside a tent filled with mourners in Baghdad, during a funeral in Najaf, south of Baghdad. A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a tent filled with mourners in a predominantly Sunni district of Baghdad on June 11, 2014, killing at least 16 people, police and medical sources have said. (Reuters)

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Mourners grieve near the coffin of a victim killed by a suicide bomber who blew himself up inside a tent filled with mourners in Baghdad, during a funeral in Najaf, south of Baghdad. A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a tent filled with mourners in a predominantly Sunni district of Baghdad on June 11, 2014, killing at least 16 people, police and medical sources have said. (Reuters)

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Volunteers who have joined the Iraqi Army to fight against the predominantly Sunni militants, who have taken over Mosul and other Northern provinces, travel in an army truck, in Baghdad. (Reuters)

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Volunteers who have joined the Iraqi Army to fight against the predominantly Sunni militants, who have taken over Mosul and other Northern provinces, travel in an army truck, in Baghdad. (Reuters)

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Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stand guard at a checkpoint in the northern Iraq city of Mosul. (Reuters)

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Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stand guard at a checkpoint in the northern Iraq city of Mosul. (Reuters)

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Iraqis fleeing violence in the Nineveh province wait in their vehicles at a Kurdish checkpoint in Aski kalak, 40 kms West of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. (AFP photo)

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Iraqis fleeing violence in the Nineveh province wait in their vehicles at a Kurdish checkpoint in Aski kalak, 40 kms West of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. (AFP photo)

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A family fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Mosul waits at a checkpoint in outskirts of Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region. (Reuters)

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A family fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Mosul waits at a checkpoint in outskirts of Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region. (Reuters)

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Iraqi men line up outside of the main army recruiting center to volunteer for military service in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP/PTI)

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Iraqi men line up outside of the main army recruiting center to volunteer for military service in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP/PTI)

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An Iraqi Kurdish security guard waits to check the ID cards of Iraqi families fleeing violence in the northern Nineveh province as they gather at a Kurdish checkpoint in Aski kalak, 40 kms West of Arbil, in the autonomous Kurdistan region. (AFP PHOTO)

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An Iraqi Kurdish security guard waits to check the ID cards of Iraqi families fleeing violence in the northern Nineveh province as they gather at a Kurdish checkpoint in Aski kalak, 40 kms West of Arbil, in the autonomous Kurdistan region. (AFP PHOTO)

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Families fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Mosul arrive at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region. Iraqi Kurds took control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Thursday after government forces abandoned their posts in the face of a sweeping Sunni Islamist rebel push towards Baghdad that threatens Iraq's future as a unified state. (Reuters)

Updated on Jun 12, 2014 11:57 pm IST

Families fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Mosul arrive at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region. Iraqi Kurds took control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Thursday after government forces abandoned their posts in the face of a sweeping Sunni Islamist rebel push towards Baghdad that threatens Iraq's future as a unified state. (Reuters)

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