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Iraqi children fleeing violence in the northern Nineveh province sleep in a tent at a temporary camp in Aski kalak, 40 kms West of Arbil, in the autonomous Kurdistan region, on June 12, 2014. Thousands of people who fled Iraq’s second city of Mosul after it was overrun by jihadists wait in the blistering heat, hoping to enter the safety of the nearby Kurdish region and furious at Baghdad’s failure to help them. many as half a million people are thought to have fled Mosul, which was captured by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Tuesday after a spectacular assault that routed the army. AFP PHOTO/SAFIN HAMED