At least 11 workers, including two Iranians, were killed when ISIS militants stormed a power plant north of Kirkuk and then blew themselves up. Kirkuk is some 170 kilometres from the Islamic State-held city of Mosul, where Iraqi forces have been waging a wide-scale offensive since Monday. Kurdish forces assumed full control of Kirkuk in the summer of 2014, as Iraq's army and police crumbled in the face of a lightning advance by ISIS. There was no immediate word on casualties among civilians or Kurdish forces in Kirkuk, and the TV report could not immediately be confirmed. The following month, ISIS militants captured the western Iraqi city of Ramadi and the eastern Syrian city of Palmyra.

Source: CBC News October 21, 2016 09:11 UTC