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Sat, 21 Jun 2014 20:20 PM

Kurdish Peshmerga troops secure an area in the town of Sulaiman Pek in Salahuddin province June 21, 2014. Sunni fighters have seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers a century ago in a campaign to create an Islamic Caliphate from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran. The militants, led by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), first moved into the nearby town of al-Qaim on Friday, pushing out security forces, the sources said on Saturday. REUTERS/Yahya Ahmad (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY)

Sat, 21 Jun 2014 20:19 PM

A Kurdish Peshmerga soldier walks past the wreckage of a burnt vehicle belonging to Iraqi security forces on a road in the town of Sulaiman Pek in Salahuddin province June 21, 2014. Sunni fighters have seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers a century ago in a campaign to create an Islamic Caliphate from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran. The militants, led by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), first moved into the nearby town of al-Qaim on Friday, pushing out security forces, the sources said on Saturday. REUTERS/Yahya Ahmad (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY)

Sat, 21 Jun 2014 18:27 PM

Members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces take their positions during a patrol looking for militants, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), explosives and weapons in a neighbourhood in Ramadi , June 11, 2014. Sunni fighters seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said on Saturday, June 21, 2014, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers almost a century ago with the aim of creating an Islamic Caliphate stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran. The militants, led by the ISIL, first moved into the nearby town of al-Qaim on Friday, pushing out security forces, the sources said. Picture taken June 11, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT MILITARY)

Sat, 21 Jun 2014 18:25 PM

Members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces take their positions during a patrol looking for militants, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), explosives and weapons in a neighbourhood in Ramadi , June 11, 2014.Sunni fighters seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said on Saturday, June 21, 2014, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers almost a century ago with the aim of creating an Islamic Caliphate stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran. The militants, led by the ISIL, first moved into the nearby town of al-Qaim on Friday, pushing out security forces, the sources said. Picture taken June 11, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT MILITARY)

Sat, 21 Jun 2014 18:22 PM

Members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces take their positions during a patrol looking for militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), explosives and weapons in a neighbourhood in Ramadi, June 11, 2014. Sunni fighters seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said on Saturday, June 21, 2014, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers almost a century ago with the aim of creating an Islamic Caliphate stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran. The militants, led by the ISIL, first moved into the nearby town of al-Qaim on Friday, pushing out security forces, the sources said. Picture taken June 11, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT MILITARY)

Sat, 21 Jun 2014 18:16 PM

A member of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces peers through a hole in a wall during a patrol looking for militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), explosives and weapons, in a neighbourhood in Ramadi, June 11, 2014. Sunni fighters seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said on Saturday, June 21, 2014, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers almost a century ago with the aim of creating an Islamic Caliphate stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran. The militants, led by the ISIL, first moved into the nearby town of al-Qaim on Friday, pushing out security forces, the sources said. Picture taken June 11, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY MILITARY CONFLICT)

Sat, 21 Jun 2014 18:09 PM

Members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces take their positions during a patrol looking for militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), explosives and weapons in a neighbourhood in Ramadi, June 10, 2014. Sunni fighters seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said on Saturday, June 21, 2014, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers almost a century ago with the aim of creating an Islamic Caliphate stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran. The militants, led by the ISIL, first moved into the nearby town of al-Qaim on Friday, pushing out security forces, the sources said. Picture taken June 10, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY CONFLICT)