Sunni Islamist insurgents who control large parts of northern Iraq attacked a town north of Baghdad early on Sunday, seizing local government buildings, police and witnesses said. They said militants in 50 to 60 vehicles stormed the town of Dhuluiya, about 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad at 3.30 am (8.30 p.m. EDT Saturday), taking the mayor's office and municipal council building and fighting to take control of the police station. Insurgents led by the al Qaeda offshoot Islamic State seized swathes of Iraq's northern and western Sunni Muslim provinces in a two-day offensive last month. They were pushed back at Dhuluiya on June 14 by soldiers loyal to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite-led government backed by fighters from the Shi'ite Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia, but fighting has continued and they have taken other towns. Read More http://ift.tt/1kQSwr9
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