Fighters of the Islamic State (EI) yesterday seized more than 70 young people in a Sunni town in northern Iraq and a suicide bomber killed 14 people in Baghdad, security sources said, while NATO at its summit in evaluating how to face Wales progress jihadists.
The hostages are citizens of Tal Ali, in the province of Kirkuk, and were charged by EI fighters on trucks and taken to an unknown location, security sources told EFE.
The EI retired yesterday Tal Ali, southwest of Kirkuk, 240 kilometers north of Baghdad, fearing an attack by the army. Then, residents burned a flag of IE, the action could be an act of revenge and a way to recruit new fighters.
In the province of Kirkuk there are controlled by extremists and other areas by the security forces in Iraqi Kurdistan, known as "peshmerga". The city of Kirkuk lies outside Kurdistan, but was occupied by the peshmerga to be threatened by the advance of EI. Both sides face there and in the provinces of Salahadin and Nineveh, where in recent days with the peshmerga regular Iraqi troops have made progress.
The EI, accused by the UN of crimes against humanity, made rapid conquests in the north, in June, and proclaimed a caliphate in Iraq and Syrian territories under its control.
Meanwhile, about 20 jihadists were killed yesterday by American bombing.
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