they are currently clashing with government troops just 60-kilometer as way in the city of baquoba.ice say dozens of sunni prisoners were killed in an overnight assault by shia that litsch a on a prison station there. sewn you rebels have made a number of gains across northern iraq, including a tikrit and mo dull. they are under pressure to reach out to the sunnies as a way to stemming the violence. prime minister al-maliki is accusing sunni power, saudi arabia, of stowing the up rising. from baghdad, imran kahn has more on the fight back. >> reporter: confident young men lineup shouting get out isil. they are referring to the islamic state of iraq and levant who continue fighting in parts of iraq. it's been days now and the recruit. drive shows no sign of let up. these mainly shia men in the south are signing up in huge number. at least 13,000 so far. but there are concerns that they are not getting the training or equipment necessary. a charge iraq denies. >> we continue to receive large numbers of volunteers and we supply them with military fatigues, then we transfer them for a t

also not far from baquoba, ba cube is the capital city of the province. down, that town is witness something fierce fighting between armed men from the islamic state in iraq and the levant as well as with other groups fighting kurdish. now the kurds have forces in that area. now, north -- up north in the province sources in the town say that they have recaptured it from the government forces. now, we are facing a problem with records to the information coming from the two warring sides from the rebel side and from the government side because, remember, only two days ago the government declared that they have freed this town. this is about less than a hundred kilometers away. now, when it comes to the belt of baghdad area, there is fighting in a number of areas some *f those areas are less than one hour drive from the capital baghdad. >> it seems that some of the foreign missions are pulling out too? >> yes, that's right. the latest being the consolate in the southern city of basra, the turkish consolate there. the staff were evacuate today neighboring kuw

in the east of the country in baquoba there is an area there and fighters from the islamic state of iraq levant were battling government forces and militias. those classes left six killed and three militia men also killed. so the total of nine. now, further north i outside the town government gun ships struck army -- struck fighters from the islamic state in iraq and the levant. that attack killed eight of them. >> let's leave it there, thank you. >>> in the iraqi capital and across the muslim world people have been gathering for friday prayers. a report from a mosque in baghdad. >> reporter: he is a man who knows how sensitive the situation in iraq is. at friday prayers in his mosque he says he understands that many of the sunni worshipers here are concerned about what the future might hold. he says the koran can be the only guide. >> translator: my sermon will talk about how to maintain one's honor and how to protect this country. and to help all groups whether they are muslim or nonmuslim. >> reporter: his words offer spiritual guidance but still worshipers are worried and speaking ou

iraqi troops fighting for control of baquoba 60 miles north of baghdad trying to send the relentlesslaught of isil a sunni insurgent group some believe to be the richest in the world. >> given all the advances that isil or isil have made i think their accounts have grown subthanly above ansubstantiallyr group. >> reporter: like the plunger of mosul's central bank, netting the group an estimated $425 million. other spoils include captured oil fields in syria and last week the surrounding of iraq's main domestic refinery. energy assets that offer a sustainable source of revenue through mark narcotic sales. thank to its capture of two more key iraqi border crossings over the week end. >> it gives them the opportunity to impede trade or access to people and goods in other services that their adversaries need. >> reporter: isil also extorts money at checkpoints and tax on his its local residents in its areas of control. isil and sunni insurgents have benefited from donations in doubt sa*ud i can't rape i can't, qatar, could you quiet and united arab emirates who want to check shia iran's

>> reporter: well, they are at a town called baquoba, east of the capital baghdad.se fighters backed by other rebels are -- were trying to overtake a number of districts there. the government says they repelled them, but the fact that the fighting took place in those areas in which some of them are only about between 55 to 60-kilometer as way from the capital baghdad, it's a reason to worry. because another side of the capital that's to the north of baghdad, they are fighting there. so they are not in the best estimation is that less than an hour drive from the capital, tony. >> omar, what is the iraqi government doing about these developments? >> reporter: well, the government is boosting security in the capital and in the areas that are called the belt of baghdad surrounding the capital. but politically on the political level we had developments in the last 15 minutes or so. now, political leaders, including prime minister nouri al-maliki met with kurdish, sunni, and other shia, indeed they are the top leaders of this country and came up with a statement calling o