ISIS Captures Mosul

Extremists fighters from the al-Qaeda offshoot Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have captured the capital of northern Iraq, Liz Sly and Ahmed Ramadan of The Washington Post report.

 

American-trained Iraqi forces reportedly fled posts in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, and all of the city’s critical facilities — including the government complex and the prisons — are now controlled by the insurgents.

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