Volunteers who have joined the Iraqi army to fight against Islamic State militants gather in the city of Baquba yesterday.
Ten people were killed, including a mother and three children, in a government air strike on a militant-controlled town north of Baghdad yesterday, hospital sources and witnesses said. The attack targeted the town of Hawija, 230km from the capital, which is controlled by Sunni Muslim insurgents from the Islamic State and other groups opposed to Iraq’s Shia-led government. A tribal leader and former army officer said the dead were all civilians, and also included an elderly couple. He blamed the deaths on the militants for locating a base in the centre of the town. Hawija has also seen infighting between the insurgents.
