Isis militants have stormed the town of Rutba in the west of Iraq, just two days after the jihadi force shocked the country with a surprise attack on the northern city of Kirkuk.
The recent attacks come as the Iraqi military, Kurdish peshmerga forces and allied militia push forward in a joint offensive under the air cover of the US-led international coalition to recapture Mosul, Iraq’s second-biggest city.
The fight is expected to be the biggest battle yet in a two-year struggle against Isis, and the biggest military operation in Iraq since the 2003 US invasion.
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