Retreating Jihadists set three wells ablaze at a **rthern Iraq oil field Thursday as they battled Kurdish forces who launched a major attack nearby, officials said. The Islamic State (IS) Jihadists set the wells on fire before deserting the Ain Zalah field, which was seized by militants along in early August, an official from the **rth Oil Company said. A colonel in the Kurdish peshmerga forces said they had launched a major attack that has seen the Jihadists pushed back from several villages in the area of the oil field. IS-led militants launched a sweeping offensive in June that overran large areas of Iraq, and turned their sights on Kurdish forces in the **rth earlier this month, driving them back toward Arbil, the capital of their three-province auto**mous region.
08-29-2014, 09:31 PM
Jihadists burn three Iraq oil wells as Kurds attack
Retreating Jihadists set three wells ablaze at a **rthern Iraq oil field Thursday as they battled Kurdish forces who launched a major attack nearby, officials said. The Islamic State (IS) Jihadists set the wells on fire before deserting the Ain Zalah field, which was seized by militants along in early August, an official from the **rth Oil Company said. A colonel in the Kurdish peshmerga forces said they had launched a major attack that has seen the Jihadists pushed back from several villages in the area of the oil field. IS-led militants launched a sweeping offensive in June that overran large areas of Iraq, and turned their sights on Kurdish forces in the **rth earlier this month, driving them back toward Arbil, the capital of their three-province auto**mous region.
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