Iraq 'expels IS militants from a major oil refinery'
Source: BBC
Iraqi forces say they have driven away Islamic State militants from around the country's largest oil refinery.
It comes a day after officials said they had retaken the nearby town of Baiji, which had been under militant control since June.
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Al-Hadath television said security forces had entered the refinery compound, the Reuters news agency said.
Fully clearing Baiji and the refinery of IS fighters would enable Iraqi forces to cut key the militant's supply lines, says the BBC's Hugh Sykes in Baghdad.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-30067485
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)terrorist group, of course ISIS didn't help itself by the brutality it inflicted upon innocent civilians in the areas it over ran.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)daleo
(21,317 posts)Or capitalist businesses. Hard to be sure which.