ISIL group has claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack on the Iraqi embassy in Kabul on Monday, Al Jazeera reports.
Sources tell Al Jazeera that fighters are holed up in a building close to the embassy in Shar-e-Naw and a gun battle is under way.
Two fighters "attacked the Iraqi embassy building in the Afghan city of Kabul", the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group said in a statement released on their website "Amaq News Agency", without providing further details.