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IRAQI soldiers surrounded and re-entered the country’s biggest oil refinery on Saturday.
The complex at Beiji, about 150 miles north of Baghdad, had been besieged for days by Islamic State (Isis) militants after being held by the Iraqi military against their onslaughts for several months.
Holding it is crucial, as it accounts for more than a quarter of the country’s entire refining capacity.
Salahuddin provincial military commander Abdel-Wahab al-Saadi said that ground forces had re-entered the refinery on Saturday, days after a number of Isis fighters attacked and briefly took over a small part of the sprawling complex.
A day earlier, Iraqi soldiers with the backing of US-led air support had gained control of the nearby towns of al-Malha and al-Mazraah just two miles south of the refinery.
