The rise of religious extremists in Iraq continues, the military withdraws. Hundreds of thousands of people are on the run. The rebels appear to have taken the city with the largest Baiji oil refinery in the country.

A huge number of cars has been building up outside of Mosul in northern Iraq, hundreds of thousands trying to flee the violence in the Iraqi city. The BBC reported of up to 500,000 people who want to escape the fierce battles between jihadis and the military in Mosul, even soldiers should be among them.

Apparently the advance of the rebels is promoted more and more Iraqi soldiers deserting or go over to the rebels. As the “New York Times” reported attracted many soldiers from their uniforms and laid down their arms in order to escape with the civilians. According to the report released the jihadists thousands prisoners, occupied military stations, banks and administrative buildings and raised the flag of Isis, the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” (Isis). The extremists had taken the second largest Iraqi city after days of fighting lengths on Tuesday.

One day after the seizure of power in the second largest city in the country, Mosul, the rebels have now taken the industrial city of Baiji. “Insurgents of Isis were deployed overnight and have the courthouse and a police station in the city center set on fire,” said a security representative the television station Al-Sumaria News. In addition, the extremists had seized weapons of the armed forces.

In the city is the largest oil refinery in the country. Iraqi security forces on Wednesday reported that militants had put a courthouse and a police station on fire.

The refinery is guarded by approximately 250 guards. According to the security forces, the insurgents but sent a delegation to convince them they retire. Accordingly, the guards would have agreed – on the condition that they would be brought safely to another city.

Islamist Terror Iraq:UN Chief Ban Ki-moon deeply concerned

Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri Maliki called on Parliament to impose a state of emergency to ensure it greater possibilities for intervention. A spokesman for the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, referring to the flight movements and struggles that he was “very concerned”.

Even outside Mosul bring radical Islamic insurgents more areas under their control. After the provinces of Nineveh and Kirkuk, the jihadists have also gained parts in the province of Salaheddin. It is the first time that rebels in Iraq control entire areas.

Apparently go large parts of the exodus south to Baghdad and the Kurdish areas in the eastern part of the country. The mile-long traffic jams occur at the checkpoints at the exits of the towns.

A brigadier general and a local government official said the security forces would have to withdraw from the affected regions. According to the information, the security forces often gave up without a fight on their positions.

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