Sunni insurgents made new territorial gains in northern Iraq yesterday although their push towards Baghdad appeared to slow amid mounting resistance from Shia militias.
Insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) moved northwest into the town of Tal Afar, near the Syrian border, and said they had taken control of the town’s airport, which would be the fifth airport seized by the militants since Iraq’s second-largest city fell to them last Monday.
The new advances by Isis came as tens of thousands of Iraqi volunteers and Shia militia started to move north from Baghdad as the government sought to wrest back towns over-run by Sunni insurgents.
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