A senior Iraqi military official says Iraqi security forces have gained full control over a contested area south of the country’s largest oil refinery. General Ayad al-lahabi tells The Associated Press that the military, backed by divisions of the Popular Mobilisation Forces and coalition airstrikes, gained control of the towns of al-Malha and al-Mazraah, located 3 kilometers south of the Beiji oil refinery, killing at least 160 militants with the ISIS. Al-lahabi says security forces are trying to secure two corridors around the refinery after the Sunni militants launched an attack on the complex earlier this week.