Iraq has warned that the ISIL Takfiri terrorists have taken control of a huge former chemical weapons facility northwest of the capital Baghdad. 

In a letter distributed on Tuesday at the United Nations, Iraq said remnants of 2,500 chemical rockets filled with the deadly nerve agent sarin are kept along with other chemical warfare agents in the facility. On June 12, the site’s surveillance system showed that some equipment was looted. 

Iraq’s ambassador to the UN, Mohamed Ali Alhakim, told UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in the letter that “armed terrorist groups” penetrated the Muthanna site on June 11, and detained officers and soldiers from the protection force guarding the facilities. 

He said that his country is not capable of fulfilling “its obligations to destroy chemical weapons” due to the deteriorating security situation in the complex.