| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | ISIS declares Islamic state | | The extremist group that's taken over a large swath of western and northern Iraq announced on Sunday the establishment of a "caliphate," an Islamic state stretching across the region, and said it would now be known as the Islamic State rather than the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. |
| Who really controls Tikrit? | | Five Russian Sukhoi fighter jets arrived Saturday in Iraq, the first of 25 warplanes expected to be delivered under a contract agreed to by Moscow and Baghdad, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement provided to CNN. |
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