Newly released footage within the last few hours from Iraq Ministry of Defense shows their Iraqi Air Force striking a number of Daash terrorist group nests allegedly containing large stores of weapons and munitions in the city of Mosul and province of Salahuddin.The terrorist militants, spearheaded by the powerful Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadist group, have overrun all of one province and chunks of three more since launching their offensive last week.Iraq says it has "regained the initiative" against militants who seized vast swathes of territory, as former UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi blamed the crisis on global neglect of Syria's civil war.Former British prime minister Tony Blair has stepped forward saying the region’s current woes cannot be blamed on the 2003 invasion of Iraq, saying there would still have been a “major problem” if failed dictator Saddam Hussein had remained to face the Arab Spring revolutions.Meanwhile, Iraq’s top military spokesman, Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, confirmed the photos’ authenticity on Sunday night and said he was aware of cases of mass murder of captured Iraqi soldiers.Edited footage spliced from 7 minutes of original videoIraqi Air Force, Iraq Ministry of Defense