Iraqi air strikes kill 19 in battle to reclaim largest oil refinery from ISIS as it's revealed 1,000 people - mostly civilians - have died during jihadi uprising
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Iraqi air strikes kill 19 in battle to reclaim largest oil refinery from ISIS | Mail Online
- A total of at least 32 killed in strikes as government seeks to regain control of Baiji refinery and a strategic town
- Sunni militants earlier claimed they had finally seized the key strategic oil after ten days of intense fighting
- Insurgents overrun town and airport in Tal Afar, but Iraqi forces regain control of key border crossing with Syria
- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hold talks with Kurdish leader to carve out plans for more inclusive government
- But the ISIS uprising has boosted Kurdish ambitions of succeeding as a fully independent state in the north
- Britons fighting for ISIS in Iraq and Syria so unfit they are used as little more than cannon fodder, says expert
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Iraqi air strikes kill 19 in battle to reclaim largest oil refinery from ISIS | Mail Online