Islamic State attacks Iraqi oil city Kirkuk, curfew declared - sources

By Saif Hameed and Mustafa Mahmoud KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Islamic State militants attacked a power station and other buildings in the northeastern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk early on Friday, killing at least 18 people, security sources said. Fighting raged on through the afternoon as authorities called a curfew, saying some of the attackers were still holed up in a hotel and a mosque in the middle of the city that is currently held by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters. The assaults came four days after