Interesting Article: " ISIL Fighters Seize New Iraq City amid Reports of Massacre " by RFE/RL, published June 16th, 2014. An interesting article mentioned that The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) says it has seized another city in northern Iraq shortly after claiming to have massacred hundreds of Iraqi soldiers. Residents and officials in Tal Afar, some 420 kilometers northwest of Baghdad, told the media that the city fell to Sunni militants from ISIL early on June 16 after a fierce battle. The fall of Tal Afar comes only days after Al-Qaeda offshoot ISIL overran two main cities in the north -- Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, and Tikrit, the hometown of former dictator Saddam Hussein. Would you like to know more?
"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles." (Sun Tzu, The Art of War)