ISIS still has Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but they apparently don’t have the Iraqi city of Baiji anymore:
Iraqi officials say their forces have driven out Islamic State (IS) fighters from the oil refinery town of Baiji, 200km (130 miles) north of Baghdad.
Gen Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi told Iraqi state TV that the town “had been completely liberated”.
There are still reports of heavy fighting around the oil refinery, which is Iraq’s largest.
Baiji is a big loss if this is true, and its loss is a sign that ISIS’s hold on Salah al-Din Province is slipping and they’re being pushed back toward Mosul. In other words, they’re losing.
The Foreign Exchanges Companion 