Mosul city fell into the hands of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, Iraq PM calls for emergency

Mosul city fell into the hands of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, Iraq PM calls for emergency

Militants in Mosul effectively controlled second largest city in Iraq.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked parliament to declare a state of emergency after an extreme Islamist group took over the city of Mosul in the north.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki issued its request in a news conference broadcast live on Tuesday (10/06).

Islamist extremist groups in Iraq have seized Click main buildings owned by the government in the city of Mosul, thus they effectively took control in the second largest city in the country.

Among the places are taken airports, military bases, and prisons. Hundreds of people armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades seized machine guns such places.

The armed forces and police are reported to have left the checkpoint, while thousands of people fled from the city.

Iraq's parliament speaker says terrorist groups now control not only but also the overall Mosul and Nineveh Province called for immediate government forces sent there.

Group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, the BBC's Jim Muir, have controlled most of the area the Nineveh province for months and picked up the shipping costs as well as demanding protection money to the officials.

After fighting for five days, they controlled the vital installations in the capital of Nineveh province, Mosul, which is home to about 1.8 million inhabitants.

Parts of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, and most of the nearby city of Falluja, controlled by ISIS and its allies since the end of December. BBC