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| Isis leader calls on Muslims to 'build Islamic state' | Isis leader calls on Muslims to 'build Islamic state' |
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| The leader of jihadist militant group Isis has called on Muslims to travel to Iraq and Syria to help build an Islamic state, in an audio message. | The leader of jihadist militant group Isis has called on Muslims to travel to Iraq and Syria to help build an Islamic state, in an audio message. |
| Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called on Muslims to immigrate to the "Islamic State", saying it was a duty. | Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called on Muslims to immigrate to the "Islamic State", saying it was a duty. |
| He made a "special call" for judges, doctors, engineers and people with military and administrative expertise. | He made a "special call" for judges, doctors, engineers and people with military and administrative expertise. |
| Isis says it is forming an Islamic state, or caliphate, on the territories it controls in Iraq and Syria. | |
| In an earlier audio recording this week, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) proclaimed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as caliph and "leader for Muslims everywhere". | In an earlier audio recording this week, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) proclaimed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as caliph and "leader for Muslims everywhere". |
| The central government in Baghdad has lost control of vast swathes of territory to Sunni militants, led by Isis, over the past month. | |
| The group says its Islamic state will extend from Aleppo in northern Syria to Diyala province in eastern Iraq. | |
| Setting up a state governed under strict Islamic law has long been a goal of many jihadists. | Setting up a state governed under strict Islamic law has long been a goal of many jihadists. |
| "Rush O Muslims to your state. Yes, it is your state. Rush, because Syria is not for the Syrians, and Iraq is not for the Iraqis," Al-Baghdadi said in a new audio message on Tuesday. | |
| "O Muslims everywhere, whoever is capable of performing hijrah (emigration) to the Islamic State, then let him do so, because hijrah to the land of Islam is obligatory," he added. | |
| He also called on jihadist fighters to escalate fighting during the holy month of Ramadan, which began on Sunday. | |
| The United Nations has said at least 2,417 Iraqis, including 1,531 civilians, were killed in "acts of violence and terrorism" in June. | |
| The figure does not include fatalities in the western province of Anbar, where the Iraqi authorities say 244 civilians died. |