Backed by Shiite militias and military helicopters government forces have crossed a desert area west of Baijii in order to retake the city that is 200 km away. Of the capital. 

The Iraqis are hoping to cut the supply lines for Islamic militants around the refinery and thus obtain control of a road to Mosul, the largest city in the north. 

The fighters of the Islamic state took the city of Baijii last June after a lightning campaign through northern Iraq. 

The fighters also control a strip of land in neighboring Syria and proclaimed a caliphate at the turn of the two countries 

The Iraqi government and its allies in the autonomous Kurdish region are recapturing wide areas of territory in the north of the country, aided by coalition air strikes led by the US, against targets of the Islamic state in Iraq and Syria. 

The Baijii refinery produces about 175,000 barrels a day, to get an idea of the importance of the refinery must know that Iraq has a national daily consumption of about 600000-700000 barrels a day, the recapture of Baijii can be crucial to stay dry most of the fighters of the Islamic state. 

The Iraqi Kurdish fighters known as peshmerga, are fighting the Islamic state in the north of the country where we have made great progress in terms of the reconquest, the Iraqi Kurds have also sent fighters to Turkey to help the Kurds in Syria in order to defend border town of Kobani also beset by fighters of the Islamic state. 

The end of the siege of Kobani. passes through the recapture of Baijii.

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