Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »
Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity
:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »
Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism
:: Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements at the UN General Assembly this week where he urged the UN to “handle the suspicious death of More »
Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that the attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities are a test of international resolve in the face of destructive acts that More »
Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities represented a “dangerous escalation not only toward the Kingdom but also the entire world.” The Crown More »
Tag Archives: BAIJI
Extremists kill 7 Iraqi security personnel
:: ISIS suicide bombers killed seven members of Iraq’s security forces in an attack on an Iraqi police and army base Wednesday in Baiji, north of Baghdad, the interior ministry and a local official said. “Five Daesh (ISIS) suicide bombers…
Iraqi forces push north after advances in Baji
Iraqi forces pressed Saturday their biggest offensive in months to resume their long-stalled northward advance and disrupt jihadist lines, security officers said. After recapturing parts of Baiji and the huge nearby refinery complex from ISIS, security and allied paramilitary forces
Iraqi forces gain more significant ground in Baiji
Iraqi forces defused booby traps and hunted down holdout jihadists in the strategic Baiji area Friday as part of their biggest advance against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group in months. Baiji lies at a crossroads between
Gunmen kill senior Iraqi oil official in Kirkuk
Gunmen shot dead a senior oil official working for Iraq’s state-run North Oil Company (NOC) on Sunday, police and company officials said. NOC’s chief of operations, Saad al-Karbalaie, was killed in the northern oil city of Kirkuk after gunmen forced
ISIS attacks Iraqi forces near Baiji refinery
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants attacked government forces and their Shiite militia allies on Saturday, killing 11 near the city of Baiji as part of the battle for control of Iraq’s biggest refinery, army and police sources
U.S., Iraq working to stem attack on Baiji oil refinery
American forces are trying to relieve pressure on Iraqi forces at the geographically important Baiji oil refinery, hitting militants with 26 air strikes since Tuesday and helping drop 18 pallets of supplies, the top U.S. general said on Thursday. Army
Iraq’s Baiji refinery under threat from ISIS: U.S.
Iraq’s largest oil refinery is under growing threat from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, who have advanced inside the perimeter of the facility, the U.S. military said Wednesday. U.S. warplanes have been carrying out air strikes against
Abadi softens criticism of Saudi airstrikes in Yemen
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi sought Thursday to walk back sharp criticism of the Saudi air campaign against Shiite militias in Yemen and welcomed news that the Saudi embassy in Baghdad will reopen soon. Abadi had told reporters Wednesday that
Abadi: ISIS remains fierce adversary in Iraq
Iraq’s prime minister said on Wednesday that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group remains a fierce adversary as he outlined plans during a trip to Washington to prioritize battles in the refinery city of Baiji and Anbar
ISIS seizes parts of Iraq’s largest oil refinery: officials
Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group broke into Iraq’s massive Baiji oil refinery, seized some of its facilities and are hiding among fuel storage tanks, officials said Wednesday. ISIS has attempted repeatedly over the past
Tribal chief: ISIS seizes 15 villages in Iraq’s Anbar
Radical militant group ISIS is in control of 15 villages in the Iraqi province of Anbar, a tribal figure told Al Arabiya News. Sheikh Naeem al-Ku’oud, one of Anbar’s tribal notables, said ISIS recaptured these villages after they were previously
ISIS fighters battle Iraqi forces near Baiji refinery
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) insurgents battled Iraqi forces in the center of Baiji on Tuesday, a week after the army broke their prolonged siege of the country’s largest oil refinery just outside the town, an army officer
Iraqi security forces enter Baiji refinery
Iraqi security forces entered the country’s largest refinery for the first time on Tuesday after months of battling Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants who had surrounded it, a police colonel and state television said. If confirmed, the
Iraqi forces drive ISIS from refinery town of Beiji
Iraqi forces retook the strategic northern town of Beiji on Friday after more than two weeks of fighting with the Islamic State jihadist group, Agence France-Presse quoted officials as saying. Baiji, which had been out of government control for months,
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