Iraq ’s biggest oil refinery at Baiji is set to reopen after government troops forced Islamic State militants further from the facility. Iraqi troops will expel the militants from areas near a pipeline supplying the plant 130 miles (209 kilometers) north of Baghdad , Colonel Khalaf al-Jabouri, a member of Iraq’s anti-terror forces, said by phone. It will take about three months to restart the plant because workers have fled to other provinces and refinery units need maintenance, according to Saad al-Azzawi, an engineer at Baiji. “We will secure the pipeline network that feeds oil to the refinery,” al-Jabouri said. “The Iraqi forces are now seeking to clear the path where the pipelines pass through to pump the oil to Baiji and also to export the crude to Turkey .” The Baiji plant has been at the center of repeated attacks since June as Islamic State militants attempted to […]