Militants take control of Tal Afar, advance closer to Baghdad

By Ruth Pollard
Updated June 18 2014 - 2:08am, first published June 17 2014 - 10:29pm
Residents of Mosul at a Peshmerga checkpoint halfway between Mosul and Erbil in semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan. Photo: Andrew Quilty / Oculi
Residents of Mosul at a Peshmerga checkpoint halfway between Mosul and Erbil in semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan. Photo: Andrew Quilty / Oculi
Dusk at a refugee camp set up by the Mosul Rd that runs between the besieged city and Erbil in the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan.  Photo: Andrew Quilty / Oculi
Dusk at a refugee camp set up by the Mosul Rd that runs between the besieged city and Erbil in the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. Photo: Andrew Quilty / Oculi
Vehicles are checked by Kurdish Peshmerger forces at a checkpoint on the Mosul Road. Photo: Andrew Quilty / Oculi.
Vehicles are checked by Kurdish Peshmerger forces at a checkpoint on the Mosul Road. Photo: Andrew Quilty / Oculi.
Iraqis, mainly from Mosul, set up in a refugee camp by the Mosul Rd that runs between the besieged city and Erbil in the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan.  Photo: Andrew Quilty/Oculi
Iraqis, mainly from Mosul, set up in a refugee camp by the Mosul Rd that runs between the besieged city and Erbil in the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. Photo: Andrew Quilty/Oculi