Sunni Militants Close In On Largest Oil Refinery In Iraq -- Irish Times
Sunni insurgents from an al-Qaeda splinter group closed in on Iraq’s biggest oil refinery today after seizing the northern city of Mosul in a devastating show of strength against the Shia-led government.
Security sources said militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) - Sunni militants waging sectarian war on both sides of the Iraqi-Syrian frontier - drove into the town of Baiji late yesterday in armed vehicles, torching the court house and police station after freeing prisoners.
The militants offered safe passage to some 250 men guarding the refinery on the outskirts of Baiji on condition they leave.
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Iraq Insurrection Spreads Into Oil Regions -- WSJ
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