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Iraqi Forces Say Most of Baiji Town Recaptured from Islamic State

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Iraqi forces have cleared Islamic State militants from most of the northern town of Baiji and hope to drive them from the nearby oil refinery within days, a spokesman for the Shi'ite militias leading the fight said on Thursday. Islamic State fighters swept into Baiji, about 190 km (120 miles) north of Baghdad, a year ago during their lightning takeover of Iraq's Sunni Muslim provinces. The town and refinery - the country's largest - have been battlefronts since then. If the...

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