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Baiji

A view of a Baiji oil refinery, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, February 19, 2008.
Conflict
An Iraqi oil refinery that was too important to destroy has just been destroyed
A view of the oil refinery in Baiji, Iraq, taken in 2007, when it was operational. The refinery has been shut down since June 2014.
Conflict
The US has intervened to help Iraq hold its most important oil facility
A general view of the Baiji oil refinery, Iraq's largest, in 2009. Today it's being held — barely — by Iraqi forces against ISIS fighters.
Conflict
As the US bombs ISIS oil in Syria, militants lay siege to Iraq’s biggest refinery
Families fleeing violence in northern wait at a checkpoint on the edge of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region. Half-a-million people are believed to have fled the city of Mosul in 24 hours.
Conflict & Justice
Why Iraq may be headed for an all-out sectarian war