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Iraqi ground forces enter Beiji oil refinery
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.
It only seems like the refinery has been traded back and forth by the warring parties...
A day earlier, Iraqi soldiers, backed by US-led coalition airstrikes and Shia and Sunni militias dubbed the Popular Mobilisation Forces, gained control of the towns of Al Malha and Al Mazraah, located 3 kilometres south of the Beiji refinery.

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 2015-04-19
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