BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State-led insurgents took control of most of the western Iraqi town of Hit in Anbar province early on Thursday, security sources and local officials said. The ultra-radical Sunni Muslim militants have captured vast swathes of western and **rthern Iraq including the **rth's biggest city Mosul in June, as well as large areas of the east and **rth of neighbouring Syria. The fall of Hit exposes the Ain al-Asad military base in the nearby town of al-Baghdadi to attack. ...
10-02-2014, 08:32 PM
Islamist insurgents seize western Iraqi town of Hit: security sources
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