Pentagon: Iraqi Baiji battle on Daesh heads in wrong direction


(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Iraq's fight to secure the country's largest oil refinery against the Daesh terrorist gang is heading in the wrong direction, the United States Department of Defense (Pentagon) said, while declining to predict the outcome of the ongoing battle Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said in a statement on Wednesday, "It has been a tough, fluid fight," adding that "right now it's flowing in the wrong direction." "It could still turn around; at this point, it's impossible to predict how it's going to play out ", he noted.


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