Iraqi forces and Shiite militias retake oil refinery from ISIS
Iraqi forces and the Shiite militias fighting alongside them announced Friday that they had retaken the oil refinery at Baiji from Islamic State militants, in some of the first significant progress against the extremist group after months of stalled efforts. “Baiji refinery has been completely liberated from Daesh,” a spokesman for Iraq’s counterterrorism service said, using the […]Michael R. Gordon reports for the New York Times:
Iraqi forces and the Shiite militias fighting alongside them announced Friday that they had retaken the oil refinery at Baiji from Islamic State militants, in some of the first significant progress against the extremist group after months of stalled efforts. “Baiji refinery has been completely liberated from Daesh,” a spokesman for Iraq’s counterterrorism service said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State, which is also known as ISIS or ISIL. “Removing the I.E.D.s will take some time, but we can say that we liberated the whole of the refinery,” he added, referring to improvised bombs.
