Iraq crisis: Fighting in Tikrit after 'caliphate' declared [View all]

[Alex P Notkeaton]

Source: BBC News

30 June 2014 Last updated at 16:15

Fresh clashes have been reported between jihadist-led Sunni rebels and government forces around the Iraqi city of Tikrit.

Witnesses said there had been a wave of air strikes and that former President Saddam Hussein's palace had been hit.

A local source told the BBC the rebels had meanwhile seized parts of a nearby military base in a counter-attack.

It comes a day after the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) announced the creation of a "caliphate".

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28092840

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Caliphate from Clusterfuck. Impressive!