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Reuter/The New York Times-Militants attacked one of Iraq's largest air bases and seized control of several small oilfields on Wednesday as U.S. military experts arrived to set up an operations center to help Iraqi security forces counter a mounting Sunni insurgency. The New York Times reports that Iran is directing surveillance drones over Iraq from an airfield in Baghdad and is secretly supplying the Iraqi government with tons of military equipment, supplies and other assistance, according to American officials.

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Thursday, June 26th 2014 at 8:10AM
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...'The United Nations says more than 1,000 people, mainly civilians, have been killed during the Sunni insurgents' advance in Iraq, spearheaded by al Qaeda offshoot ISIL.

The figure includes unarmed government troops machine-gunned in mass graves by insurgents, as well as several reported incidents of prisoners killed in their cells by retreating government forces.

In addition to the bloodshed, close to a million people have been displaced in Iraq this year. Amin Awad, director of Middle East and North Africa bureau for the U.N. refugee agency, on Wednesday called Iraq "a land of displacement".'...

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