BAGHDAD (Reuters) -
Iraqi military
forces reached the center of the **rthern city of
Baiji on Sunday to try to
break an Islamic State
siege of the country's biggest
refinery nearby, according to an army colonel and a witness. Islamic State insurgents seized
Baiji and surrounded the sprawling
refinery in June during a lightning
advance through **rthern Iraq. The Sunni militants have captured large expanses of neighboring Syria and **w face U.S.-led air strikes. ...
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