(Zaman Alwasl)- Al-Qaeda renegade group took control of Al-Rabiea’ town and its crossing border with Iraq after fierce clashes with the Iraqi troops and Kurdish Peshmerga units on Tuesday, Zaman Alwasl correspondent reported.
Several Iraqi army officers told Reuters that Iraqi forces were demoralized and no match for the militants from the the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIS), which is also active across the border in Syria.
Early Tuesday, Iraqi authorities declared a state of emergency in Mosul on Tuesday after ISIS took control of the city, while army troops withdrew from their central base, an Al Arabiya News Channel correspondent reported.
"Without urgent intervention of more supporting troops Mosul could fall into their hands in a matter of days" said a senior security official from Nineveh operation center, adding that ISIS was only 3 kilometers from the Ghizlani military camp.
Militants were making further gains in a fourth day of fighting in the country's second-largest city.
In relevant development, The Kurdish militia, People's Protection Units (YPG) declared, in statement issued Tuesday, readiness to fight with Iraqi Army and Peshmerga against Al-Qaeda renegade group in northern Iraq.
The armed wing of the Democratic Union Party in Syria called for cooperation with Peshmerga in Iraq to fight (ISIS). “Peshmerga and YPG are on one line to counter ISIS attacks on Kurds,” the statement said.
YPG, which has already involved in fierce clashes with ISIS since months, says we have ‘mutual enemy’. (With agencies)
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