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Militants on the march in Iraq
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The conflict in Syria and Iraq has now drawn more volunteer fighters than past Islamist causes in Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia - and an estimated eight out of 10 enlistees have joined Islamic State. (AP Photo)
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An Iraqi Kurdish security guard (Peshmerger) stands guard as Iraqi families fleeing violence in the northern Nineveh province gather at a Kurdish checkpoint in Aski kalak, 40 kms West of Arbil, in the autonomous Kurdistan region. (AFP Photo)
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A member of the Iraqi security forces lies dead beside a vehicle in Tikrit, which was overran by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. (Reuters Photo)
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Iraqi security forces leave a military base as Kurdish forces take over control in Kirkuk. (Reuters Photo)
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Iraqi policemen are seen inside a military base in Baghdad after the declaration of a state of emergency by the government. (AFP Photo)
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An image grab taken from a propaganda video uploaded on June 11, 2014 by jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) allegedly shows ISIL militants gathering at an undisclosed location in Iraq's Nineveh province. (AFP Photo)
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Shakir Waheib, a senior member of the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), left, next to a burning police vehicle in Iraq's Anbar Province. (AP Photo)
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An Iraqi refugee girl from Mosul stands outside her family's tent at Khazir refugee camp outside Irbil, 217 miles north of Baghdad. (AP Photo)
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Civilians inspect the aftermath of a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City, Iraq, Wednesday, June. 11, 2014. A suicide bomber set off his explosive belt inside a tent where tribesmen were meeting to solve a tribal dispute, killing and wounding scores of people, authorities said. (AP Photo)
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People clean up in the aftermath of a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City, Iraq. A suicide bomber set off his explosive belt inside a tent where tribesmen were meeting to solve a tribal dispute, killing and wounding scores of people, authorities said. (AP/PTI Photo)
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