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Iraqi ground forces enter Beiji oil refinery | |
2015-04-19 | |
Baghdad -- Iraqi ground forces secured the perimeter around the country’s biggest oil refinery on Saturday and entered the vast complex amid heavy clashes with Daesh militants, said a senior Iraqi military official. Abdel-Wahab Al Saadi, the top military commander in Iraq’s Salahuddin province, said ground forces entered the Beiji oil refinery on Saturday, days after a number of Daesh militants carried out a large-scale attack and briefly took over a small part of the complex. “It is another victory achieved by Iraqi security forces that are growing confident in the war against the terrorists,” Al Saadi said. The refinery has remained under government control, but the militants had been surrounding the entire complex preventing access by Iraqi forces.
Iraqi forces recaptured Tikrit, capital of Salahuddin, on April 1 and have been gradually pushing their offensive north to secure the rest of the province. Militants from the Daesh group seized Ninevah province and much of Salahuddin and Anbar provinces last summer during their advance across northern and western Iraq. | |
Posted by:Steve White |
#1 Dunno, I guess maybe both sides want to keep the site operational? No reason a war if schism should get in the way of making a defeat shekels. Meaning, srsly, could'nt an RPG or two take out a cracking tower? |
Posted by: Shipman 2015-04-19 09:26 |