Oil Minister Adil Abdulmahdi tours the besieged Baiji refinery on Sept. 11, 2014, a day after formally taking office. (Source: Office of Adil Abdulmahdi) Recommend 199 people recommend this. Sign Up to see what your friends recommend. Pro-government forces are defending against persistent attacks on the Baiji refinery, highlighting the ongoing challenge of defending territory regained from the Islamic State (IS) militant group.”The fighting has been ongoing for the last 48 hours between the Iraqi security fores and the terrorist Daesh inside Baiji refinery, when some of Daesh were able to get inside the refinery near the oil technical institute,” said a senior Salahaddin Operations Command official, using an Arabic term …