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Baghdad America's top military leader arrived in Iraq on Saturday,statetelevision reported, making his first visit to the country since a U.S.-led coalition began a campaign of airstrikes targeting the extremistIslamicStategroup.

The visit by Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, was not previously announced. It came just two days after he told Congress that the UnitedStateswould consider dispatching a modest number of American forces to fight with Iraqi troops against theIslamicStategroup, which controls about a third of Iraq and neighboring Syria.

On Saturday, Islamic State militants withdrew from the perimeter ofIraq's biggest oil refinery after months fending off government troops seeking to retake the strategic complex, said an army officer andAl-Hadathtelevision station.

The officer, speaking to Reuters from theBaijirefinery, said the Sunni insurgents removed roadside bombs they had planted and fled.Al-Hadathsaid security forces had entered the compound.

This summer, Iraqi military and security forces, trained by the U.S. at the cost of billions of dollars, melted away in the face of the extremist group's stunning offensive, when it captured most of northern and western Iraq, including the country's second-largest city Mosul.

Dempsey said Thursday that Iraqi forces were doing a better job now, although an effort to move into Mosul or to restore the border with Syria would require more complex operations.

He also told the U.S. House Armed Services Committee that America has a modest force in Iraq now, and that "any expansion of that, I think, would be equally modest."

"I just don't foresee a circumstance when it would be in our interest to take this fight on ourselves with a large military contingent," he said.

Dempsey's visit comes just one day after Iraqi forces droveIslamicStatemilitants out of a strategic oil refinery town north of Baghdad, scoring their biggest battlefield victory yet.

The recapture of Beiji is the latest in a series of setbacks for the jihadi group, which has lost hundreds of fighters to U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, particularly in the group's stalled advance on the Syrian town of Kobani. On Friday, activists there reported significant progress by Kurdish fighters defending the town.

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Raw: Car Bombs Explode in Libya
Car bombs exploded near Libya #39;s oil institute, killing at least one person and wounding at least 20. (Nov. 13) Subscribe for more Breaking News: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Get updates...

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Tripoli Is Now Safer - Phone Call With Libya

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LetsZock Global Ops: Commando Libya #2: Mental Breakdown.;_;
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Libya: Intensifying Fighting Continues to Take Heavy Civilian Toll, Warns UN Agency

Civilians walk along Tripoli Street in Misrata, Libya. Photo: UNHCR/Helen Caux

10 October 2014 In the last three weeks alone, intensified fighting between rival armed groups in Libya has forcibly displaced nearly 290,000 people across the country, including 100,000, who urgently need food, health care and adequate shelter, especially now that winter in approaching, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said today.

The growing number of displaced people is outstripping the capacities of local communities, UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards told journalists in Geneva, adding that the agency and its partners are responding to some of the needs, but we face major constraints in access.

In recent weeks, the North African nation has been embroiled in some of the worst fighting since the 2011 uprising that ousted former leader Muammar al-Qadhafi. The Libyan parliament convened for the first time in early August of this year, welcomed by the UN as a move toward peace. However, protracted battles between opposing armed groups continue to take their toll on civilians.

According to a UNHCR statement released today, recent displacement has been around Warshefana on the outskirts of Tripoli, where fighting in recent weeks has caused some 100,000 people to flee. Additionally, some 15,000 people are estimated to be displaced around Benghazi.

Many displaced people are living with locals, some who have opened their homes to several families to meet the growing need for shelter. People unable to stay with relatives or host families sleep in schools, parks or non-residential buildings converted into emergency shelters.

For example, Ajaylat, a small town some 80 kilometres west of Tripoli, normally of about 100,000 people, is now hosting some 16,000 displaced people. With displaced people now making up more than 10 per cent of the local population, health facilities are struggling to cope.

UNHCR reports that the main hospital there is witnessing a 30 per cent increase in cases and lacks essential medical supplies and medicines for chronic illnesses such as hypertension and diabetes. Other towns across western Libya and in Benghazi are under similar strain.

Efforts to reach the displaced are often hampered by limited access to towns affecting by fighting between rival armed groups. UNHCR and partners dispatched the first relief convoy for 12,000 displaced people in western Libya in August. But additional help is urgently needed, and for this, better access is required.

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