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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Iraq: Tikrit Falls to Islamist Militant Group [Watch (HLS stream): Iraq: Tikrit Falls to Islamist Militant Group](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Ja43HCOR.m3u8) (2:03)  _Published 2014-06-12. Iraq: Tikrit Falls to Islamist Militant Group_ --- Jul 27, 2023 4:49 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Watch: Islamist Militants Raze Ancient Shrine in Mosul](/video/JD1vXgog/) ### Watch: Islamist Militants Raze Ancient Shrine in Mosul [Will Iraq Fall Apart after the U.S. Leaves?](/video/L185EqA9/) ### Will Iraq Fall Apart after the U.S. Leaves? [Revisiting a Tikrit Ambush](/video/jZ4lATFs/) ### Revisiting a Tikrit Ambush --- ## Transcript Closing in on Baghdad, a terror group more radical than Al Qaeda enters Tikrit. Less than two hours drive south, is Baghdad. They're on a roll from the North, hours earlier storming the important oil town Beijing. And before that Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. The power, water and phone lines have been cut in parts of Mosul, 250 miles north of Baghdad where the Al Qaeda splinter group Isis, has seized the important transportation and administration hub. [ FOREIGN ]. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al- Maliki calling it a humanitarian crisis and asking Parliament to declare a state of emergency, calling on men to volunteer to fight. The speaker of Iraq's Parliament, urging the US to play a role in supporting Iraq against the terrorist attack and asking for urgent relief for the displaced by the international community. [ FOREIGN ]. The voice of a refugee in this video, pleading God help us, as half a million Iraqis have already fled the city. We're certainly in touch with Iraqi leadership as much as possible, but ultimately this is this is for the Iraqi security forces. And the Iraqi government to deal with. The fight proving too much for the U. S. trained Iraqi soldiers. Some reportedly discarding their uniforms, abandoning their military armed vehicles and weapons. Iraq's foreign minister is urging Iraq's it's politicians to unite. Bridge sectarian divisions that underpin Isis' battlefield gains. 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