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Iraq Oil Report

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 general view of the Baiji oil refinery, Iraq's largest, in 2009. Today it's being held — barely — by Iraqi forces against ISIS fighters.
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As the US bombs ISIS oil in Syria, militants lay siege to Iraq’s biggest refinery