US planes bombard ISIL terrorists near Baiji Refinery

Salah il-Din (IraqiNews.com) The US planes underwent five strikes near Baiji, the site of Iraq’s largest oil refinery, destroyed an artillery piece, a Humvee, a machine gun and a building used by the group, which has seized large parts of Iraq and Syria.Another strike near Haditha Dam in Iraq destroyed an armed vehicle, the statement said.

Bolstered by intensified US-led coalition airstrikes targeting militants from the Islamic State group, Kurdish militiamen fought pitched street battles Wednesday with the extremists in a Syrian Kurdish border town near Turkey, making small advances, activists and officials said. /End/