Tracey Seeley and Sasa Petricic

Sasa Petricic: News reporters Margaret Evans @mevans , Sasa Petricic @sasapetricic , Nahlah Ayed @NahlahAyed and Tracey Seeley @tracyseeley are on the ground in the northeast city of Erbil, only 90 kilometres east of Mosul, where militants with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria have taken control. , according to CBC. "Those militants have become famous for attacking and taking over the cities of Mosul and Tikrit ," Petricic said. "They've been posting horrific pictures of people who have been killed and assassinated." The capture of another northern Iraqi city by Sunni militants with the al-Qaeda splinter group on Monday is sending thousands of refugees fleeing southeast to Erbil, News reports from Iraq, as the U.S. president announced plans to send military personnel to help stop the violent tide. Erbil is considered safe by some Iraqis because it is controlled by the Kurds, who have managed to keep the militants away from this area of the country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.