Militante islamisten hebben op diverse plaatsen in Irak politiebureaus bestormd en gevangenen bevrijd. Dat meldde Al Arabiya donderdag. Ook werden wapens buitgemaakt. Over gewonden zijn nog geen berichten.
Heavy fighting raged between the Iraqi military and Sunni fighters in Anbar province, after gunmen seized control of several police stations there.
An interior ministry official told AFP news agency on Thursday that al-Qaeda-linked fighters were in control of large parts of Anbar's Fallujah and Ramadi cities.
"Half of Fallujah is in the hands of ISIL (the Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) group, and the other half is in the control of" armed tribesmen, the official said.