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Up to 3,000 women and girls kidnapped by Islamic State jihadis in Iraq in just a fortnight

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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Up to 3,000 women and girls kidnapped by Islamic State jihadis in Iraq in just a fortnight - and hundreds of men who refuse to convert have been shot dead</span></span></h1>
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<li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Innocent Yazidi children have suffered harrowing ordeals in northern Iraq</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></li>
<li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;">Kidnappings 'happened in areas where residents took up arms against IS'</span></li>
<li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Women are being held separately from the men in IS-controlled Tal Afar</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></li>
<li id="ext-gen127" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">200,000 people escaped to safety but others remain on Mount Sinjar</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These are the faces of six of the thousands of innocent Yazidi children who have suffered harrowing ordeals in Iraq this month.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Up to 3,000 women and girls have been kidnapped by Islamic State jihadis in the north of the country in just a fortnight - and hundreds of men who refuse to convert have been shot dead.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The kidnappings appear to have happened in villages where residents took up arms against IS - and the women are being held separately from the men in IS-controlled Tal Afar, east ofMountain </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="A Yazidi refugee child in Zakho, Iraq" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="1" height="423" id="i-9b07f1df9dbaffed" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/17/article-2727165-2085D4EC00000578-139_306x423.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="306" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Innocent: A displaced Iraqi child from the Yazidi community (left) holds a juice carton after crossing the Syrian-Iraqi border at the Fishkhabur crossing, Iraq. Another Yazidi refugee child is seen (right) in Zakho, Iraq</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="A Yazidi child receives a polio vaccine at Khanke, outside Dahuk, 260 miles  northwest of Baghdad" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="2" height="377" id="i-e4947ac26abab5f8" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/17/article-2727165-2099963600000578-583_638x377.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="638" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Yazidi child receives a polio vaccine at Khanke, outside Dahuk, 260 miles northwest of Baghdad</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="A Yazidi child receives a polio vaccine. The Yazidis are a centuries-old religious minority viewed as apostates by the Islamic State group, which has claimed mass killings of its opponents in Syria and Iraq" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="3" height="327" id="i-eafae5c26fa023bd" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/17/article-2727165-2099963200000578-437_640x327.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="640" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Yazidi child receives a polio vaccine. The Yazidis are a centuries-old religious minority viewed as apostates by the Islamic State group, which has claimed mass killings of its opponents in Syria and Iraq</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Iraqi clerics from the Yazidi  Yazidis found refuge after Islamic State (IS) militants attacked the town of Sinjar" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="4" height="399" id="i-eb6483a205d9e9ec" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/17/article-2727165-2099903900000578-152_638x399.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="638" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Iraqi clerics from the Yazidi Yazidis found refuge after Islamic State (IS) militants attacked the town of Sinjar</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="An Iraqi Yazidi girl holds a baby under a bridge on the outskirts of the Kurdish city of Dohuk" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="5" height="399" id="i-e6bf9b3f4f6eb2c4" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/17/article-2727165-20998B8400000578-908_638x399.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="638" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yazidi community gather under a bridge where they sought refuge after Islamic State militants attacked the town of Sinjar</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yazidi community settle at the Qandil mountains near the Turkish border outside Zakho, 300 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Young faces: An Iraqi Yazidi girl poses for a photo on the outskirts of the Kurdish city of Dohuk (left), while another is seen standing among clothing at Silopi refugee camp near Sirnak, at the Turkish-Iraqi border (right)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Caught up in conflict: An Iraqi Yazidi girl on the outskirts of the Kurdish city of Dohuk (left), and another is seen (right) after crossing the Iraqi-Syrian border at the Fishkhabur crossing</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some 200,000 people escaped to safety in Iraq's Kurdish region, but others remain on the mountain.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International's senior crisis response adviser, told the Agence France-Presse news agency: ‘The victims are of all ages, from babies to elderly men and women.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘It seems they took away entire families, all those who did not manage to flee. We fear the men may have been executed.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two women - Leila Khalaf and Wadhan Khalaf - were among those kidnapped from Mujamma Jazira village, said their relative Dakhil Atto Solo.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He added that the abductions happened after residents tried to resist the IS attack, telling AFP: ‘Of course we tried to defend our villages, but they had much bigger weapons.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘All we had were our Kalashnikovs. They executed 300 men, and took the women to their prisons.  Only God can save them now.’ Their children, said Mr Solo, were rescued by the family.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘But the women were in a house surrounded by IS. We had to escape. Now, the children cry for their mothers all the time. "Mama, mama," they wail. But there is no mama, we tell them.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His comments on the dire situation came as Islamic extremists shot dead scores of Yazidi men, lining them up in small groups and opening fire with assault rifles before seizing their wives and children.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;">'The victims are of all ages, from babies to elderly men and women. It seems they took away entire families, all those who did not manage to flee. We fear the men may have been executed'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Yazidi politician cited the mass killing in Kocho as evidence that his people were still at risk after a week of US and Iraqi air strikes on the militants.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, warplanes targeted insurgents around a large dam that was captured by the IS extremist group earlier this month.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">US Central Command said the strikes were launched under the authority to support humanitarian efforts in Iraq, as well as to protect US staff and facilities.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Central Command says the nine air strikes conducted so far had destroyed or damaged four armoured personnel carriers, seven armed vehicles, two Humvees and an armoured vehicle.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The US began strikes against IS a week ago, in part to prevent the massacre of tens of thousands of Yazidis in northern Iraq. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">IS fighters surrounded the nearby village 12 days ago and demanded that its Yazidi residents convert or die. On Friday afternoon, they moved in.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The militants told people to gather in a school, promising they would be allowed to leave Kocho after their details were recorded, said an eyewitness and the brother of the Kocho mayor, Nayef Jassem.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The militants separated the men from the women and children under 12. They took men and male teens away in groups of a few dozen each and shot them on the edge of the village, according to a wounded man who escaped by feigning death.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The fighters then walked among the bodies, using pistols to finish off anyone who appeared to still be alive, the 42-year-old man said from an area where he was hiding.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘They thought we were dead, and when they went away, we ran away. We hid in a valley until sundown, and then we fled to the mountains,’ he said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Yazidi politician, a Kurdish security official and an Iraqi official from the nearby city of Sinjar gave similar accounts, saying Islamic State fighters had massacred many Yazidi men on Friday after seizing Kocho.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;">'They thought we were dead, and when they went away, we ran away. We hid in a valley until sundown, and then we fled to the mountains'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All said they based their information on the accounts of survivors. Their accounts matched those of two other Yazidi men, Qassim Hussein and Nayef Jassem, who said they spoke to other survivors.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was not clear precisely how many men were killed. Iraqi and Kurdish officials said at least 80 men were shot.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yazidi residents said they believed the number was higher, because there were at least 175 families in Kocho, and few were able to escape before the militants surrounded their hamlet.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yesterday Britain deployed a US-made spy plane over northern Iraq to monitor the humanitarian crisis and movements of the militants.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The converted Boeing KC-135 tanker, called a Rivet Joint, was monitoring mobile phone calls and other communication.</span></div>
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Up to 3,000 women and girls kidnapped by Islamic State jihadis in Iraq in just a fortnight

Up to 3,000 women and girls kidnapped by Islamic State jihadis in Iraq in just a fortnight - and hundreds of men who refuse to convert hav...

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Islamic State pulls down church crosses in northern Iraq as 200,000 flee

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Islamic State jihadists who took over large areas of northern Iraq overnight have forced thousands of Christians to flee and occupied churches, removing crosses and destroying manuscripts, Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako has said.</span></div>
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“(The Christians) have fled with nothing but their clothes, some of them on foot, to reach the Kurdistan region,” Patriarch Sako told AFP.</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alttext="An Iraqi man carrying a cross and a Koran attends a mass at Mar Girgis Church in Baghdad" caption="An Iraqi man carrying a cross and a Koran attends a mass at Mar Girgis Church in Baghdad" copyright="Reuters" declared-caption="" height="287" name="IraaqChurch2" photographer="" refid="2999347" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02999/IraaqChurch2_2999347c.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; overflow: hidden;" version="c" width="460" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“This is a humanitarian disaster. The churches are occupied, their crosses were taken down,” said Sako. He added that up to 1,500 manuscripts were burnt.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The United Nations put the number of people who have fled as high as 200,000, and said that many thousands of people trapped by the militants on Sinjar mountain had been rescued in the past 24 hours.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We’re just receiving the information right now. We’ve just heard that people over the last 24 hours have been extracted and the UN is mobilising resources to ensure that these people are assisted on arrival,” David Swanson, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told Reuters.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is a “tragedy of immense proportions”, he said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alttext="Iraq's ethnic mix" caption="Iraq's ethnic mix" declared-caption="" height="500" name="0808-iraq-ethnic" photographer="" refid="2999773" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02999/0808-iraq-ethnic_2999773a.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; overflow: hidden;" width="460" /><sub>Iraq's ethnic mix</sub></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pope Francis called on the international community to protect Iraq's Christian community.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A statement delivered by his spokesman said the Pope joined the urgent appeals for peace from bishops in the Middle East and called on the international community to "ensure the necessary help" reaches people fleeing fighters from the Islamic State.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The US denounced the jihadist offensive, warning the situation for civilians driven from their homes threatens to become a "humanitarian catastrophe".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It is a situation that that we are looking at very closely," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, following reports that President Barack Obama was actively considering military intervention.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Islamic State militants overran Qaraqosh, Iraq’s largest Christian town, after pushing back Kurdish troops across a large area of the north of the country, fleeing residents and Christian clerics said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alttext="Displaced Christians wait for humanitarian aid at a church in Hamdaniya town, east of Mosul" caption="Displaced Christians wait for humanitarian aid at a church in Hamdaniya town, east of Mosul" copyright="Reuters" declared-caption="" height="287" name="IraaqChurch3" photographer="" refid="2999351" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02999/IraaqChurch3_2999351c.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; overflow: hidden;" version="c" width="460" /></span></div>
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<sup style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-size: small;">Displaced Christians wait for humanitarian aid at a church in Hamdaniya town, east of Mosul (Reuters)</span></sup></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jihadists moved in overnight to claim several Christian towns, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee, having pushed back Kurdish peshmerga troops, who are stretched thin across several fronts in Iraq.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alttext="Graffiti with the letter "Noon", the first letter of the world "Nasara", the word used in the Koran for Christians, tagged on the wall of a church (top L and bottom R) and on houses in the Iraqi city of Mosul" caption="Graffiti with the letter &quot;Noon&quot;, the first letter of the world &quot;Nasara&quot;, the word used in the Koran for Christians, tagged on the wall of a church (top L and bottom R) and on houses in the Iraqi city of Mosul" declared-caption="" height="287" name="IraaqChurch4" photographer="" refid="2999354" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02999/IraaqChurch4_2999354c.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; overflow: hidden;" version="c" width="460" /></span></div>
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<sup style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-size: small;">Graffiti with the letter "Noon", the first letter of the world "Nasara", the word used in the Koran for Christians, tagged on the wall of a church (top L and bottom R) and on houses in the Iraqi city of Mosul</span></sup></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I now know that the towns of Qaraqosh, Tal Kayf, Bartella and Karamlesh have been emptied of their original population and are now under the control of the militants,” Joseph Thomas, the Chaldean archbishop of Kirkuk and Sulaimaniyah, told AFP.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It’s a catastrophe, a tragic situation. We call on the UN Security Council to immediately intervene. Tens of thousands of terrified people are being displaced as we speak, it cannot be described,” the archbishop said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Islamic State group posted a statement online later om Thursday, confirming that they had taken control of Mosul Dam - Iraq's largest dam - and vowed to continue "the march in all directions," adding that it will not "give up the great Caliphate project".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The group added that it has seized a total of 17 cities, towns and targets - including the dam - over the past five days. The statement could not be verified but it was posted on a site frequently used by the group.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The overnight advance came after the Sunni militants inflicted a humiliating defeat on Kurdish forces in a weekend sweep in the north.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alttext="Area in Iraq controlled by Islamic State in January 2014" caption="Area in Iraq controlled by Islamic State in January 2014" declared-caption="" height="500" name="0808-iraq-jan" photographer="" refid="2999778" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02999/0808-iraq-jan_2999778a.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; overflow: hidden;" width="460" /><sub>Area in Iraq controlled by Islamic State in January 2014</sub></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alttext="Area in Iraq controlled by Islamic State in August 2014" caption="Area in Iraq controlled by Islamic State in August 2014" declared-caption="" height="500" name="0808-iraq-nowFINAL" photographer="" refid="3000138" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03000/0808-iraq-nowFINAL_3000138a.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; overflow: hidden;" width="460" /><sub>Area in Iraq controlled by Islamic State in August 2014</sub></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Several residents contacted by AFP confirmed that the entire area in northern Iraq, home to a large part of the country’s Christian community, had fallen to the Islamic State jihadist group.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tal Kayf, the home of a significant Christian community as well as members of the Shabak Shiite minority, also emptied overnight.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Tal Kayf is now in the hands of the Islamic State. They faced no resistance and rolled in just after midnight,” said Boutros Sargon, a resident who fled the town and was reached by phone in Arbil.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I heard some gunshots last night and when I looked outside, I saw a military convoy from the Islamic State. They were shouting 'Allahu akbar’ (God is greatest),” he said.</span></div>
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