
The United Nations atomic agency has asked Iraq for more details about 40kg (88lbs) of poisonous nuclear material taken by Islamic militants.
Iraq informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the seizure from a scientific research facility at a university in Mosul.
It appealed for the agency to help "stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in Iraq or abroad".
The city is part of a large swathe of territory both in Iraq and Syria that is now under the control of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which now refers to itself as the Islamic State.
Since ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed a caliphate - twice the size of Israel - militants have not made any further significant advances, however they are suspected of murdering more than 50 handcuffed men on the periphery of Baghdad on Tuesday night.
Meanwhile a Russian-made Sukhoi jet of the kind recently delivered by Moscow attacked a market in the rebel-held city of Fallujah, which lies only 35 miles west of the capital.
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