The World - News from Feb. 27, 1986
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Iran said its troops pushed farther into mountainous northern Iraq in overnight battles, capturing 25 more villages and strategic heights overlooking the city of Sulaymaniyah. The two-day-old offensive was seen as a threat to Iraq’s only operating oil fields, farther west in Kiruk. An Iraqi general dismissed the offensive as “mere skirmishing.” In the south, an Associated press correspondent said Iranian invasion troops were firmly in control of a large area of the Faw Penisiula.
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