Masked Sunni Muslim gunmen patrol in the city of Falluja, 70 km (43 miles) west of Baghdad, February 12, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer
BAGHDAD/TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Sunni Islamist insurgents took over much of a northern Iraqi town on Thursday and laid siege to its town hall, weeks after militants seized a whole city from the country's Shi'ite-led government.
The mayor of Sulaiman Pek, trapped in the building, identified the gunmen as members of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a Sunni group which was also involved in the takeover of the city of Falluja.
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