IS militants destroy critical control rooms and production units as pro-government forces battle to retake the remnants of Iraq's largest oil refinery.

After taking Anbar's capital, IS fighters are seizing more territory and threatening the Habbaniya air base, a key staging area for a potential Iraqi counter-attack.

Tensions rise in northern Salahaddin province after militiamen confiscated vehicles and weapons from Iraqi President Fuad Masum's Kurdish Peshmerga bodyguards.

Days after IS fighters made a devastating incursion into Iraq's largest oil refinery, reinforcements have joined the fight.

IS militants now control most of Iraq's largest oil refinery after a relentless offensive that has left pro-government forces in disarray.

Three days after Iraqi leaders declared the country's largest refinery secure, IS militants who control pockets of territory nearby have the facility in their crosshairs.

With a suspect in custody, Kurdistan security council says car bomb was detonated remotely.