It looks like the battle for control of the town that is home to Iraq’s largest oil refinery is far from over.<br /><br />Latest footage from the area shows Iraqi soldiers engaged in heavy fighting with ISIL militants. <br /><br />There have been mixed reports about the fate of the town and the refinery since being overrun by the militants in June.<br /><br />Meanwhile, images of bullet-ridden vehicles and bodies thought to be Kurdish fighters and Syrian rebels have emerged on social media sites. <br /><br />They have not been independently verified, but appear to show victims of ongoing fighting in the town of Kobani, close to the border with Turkey.<br /><br />Iraq’s foreign minister is in Turkey calling for more help in the fight against ISIL. Ankara says it will help, but military action is not the only solution. <br /><br />“If we claim we are fighting extremist groups without finding the cause of the extremism and the way to destroy it, then it would be self-deceiving,” said Turkey’s Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu.<br /><br />Britain also said this week it was sending more troops to train Iraqi and Kurdish fighters, and not just in Kurdish areas. It sent a small team to the city of Irbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdish region,last month.
