{"id":255,"date":"2014-06-11T13:24:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T10:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.migrantcenter.ro\/en\/?p=255"},"modified":"2014-06-11T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T10:24:43","slug":"iraq-militants-seize-mosul-causing-thousands-to-flee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.migrantcenter.ro\/ar\/iraq-militants-seize-mosul-causing-thousands-to-flee\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq militants seize Mosul, causing thousands to flee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Iraq’s prime minister has asked parliament to declare a state of emergency after Islamist militants effectively took control of Mosul and much of its province of Nineveh.<\/p>\n

Nouri Maliki said “vital areas” of the city had been seized; some 150,000 people are believed to have fled.<\/p>\n

Troops fled Mosul as hundreds of jihadists from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) overran it.<\/p>\n

The US has said ISIS threatens not just Iraq, but the entire region.<\/p>\n

State department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the situation in Mosul, Iraq’s second city, was “extremely serious” and that the US supported “a strong, co-ordinated response to push back against this aggression”.<\/p>\n

Security sources also told the BBC on Tuesday that fierce fighting had erupted between Iraqi forces and ISIS fighters in a town called Rashad near Kirkuk, south-east of Mosul.<\/p>\n

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