Baghdad: After capturing a major section of Iraq's biggest oil refinery, the ISIS militants have now gained control over the war-torn country's chemical weapons complex, reports CNN.
The complex which is now under the ISIS contains old contaminated weapons described by the United Nations as wasteland.
The Islamist militants who have captured the second largest city of Iraq, Mosul is now advancing towards the capital city of Baghdad.
Even as US President Barack Obama sent 300 military advisors to Iraq, the sprawling Baiji refinery, 200 km (130 miles) north of the capital near Tikrit, was transformed into a battlefield.
Troops loyal to the Shi'ite-led government held off insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, and its allies who had stormed the perimeter a day earlier, threatening national energy supplies.
(With inputs from Reuters)
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