Iraq: Chem Weapons Site Seized by 'Islamic State'

Iraqi officials say the Islamic State terrorists group has captured a huge former chemical weapons site.

The facility northwest of Baghdad held chemical warfare agents, including 2,500 chemical rockets from the 1990s filled with the deadly nerve agent sarin.

An Iraqi official says Iraq is now unable to "fulfil its obligations to destroy chemical weapons."

The radical group, formerly named ISIS or ISIL, controls large parts of Syria and Iraq.

Last week, its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared the establishment of an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the land the extremists control.

Many of the chemicals at the site they captured are believed to be deteriorated, but it's unclear if the terrorists could possess any active chemical weapons.