ISLAMIC STATE ‘MILITANTS’?
What’s with the JPost editorial staff lately?
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ISIS fighters clash with security forces inside Iraq’s largest refinery
Baghdad – Islamic state militants clashed with security forces inside Iraq’s largest refinery on Thursday and held on to recent gains in the west of the country, as Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the extremist group remained “very, very dangerous”.
The insurgents suffered a major defeat this month when Iraqi troops and Shi’ite paramilitaries routed them from the city of Tikrit, but are now striking back at Baiji refinery and in the western province of Anbar.