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In an attempt to stop the juggernaut advance of the Sunni extremist group ISIS, Iraq’s central government says the fight for the country’s largest oil refinery is far from over.

While the U.S. and its allies cannot move militarily against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime “without a U.N. mandate and without clear evidence” that Assad’s forces have used chemical weapons, the time within which a decision about such action must be made has been shortened