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. ...
11-09-2014, 03:01 PM
Iraqi forces advance to try to break insurgent siege of Baiji refinery
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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