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Counter-ISIS Strikes Target Terrorists in Syria, Iraq - Department of Defense Sat, 13 May 2017 14:29:35 GMT

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Counter-ISIS Strikes Target Terrorists in Syria, Iraq
Department of Defense
SOUTHWEST ASIA, May 13, 2017 — U.S. and coalition military forces continued to attack the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria yesterday, conducting 22 strikes consisting of 80 engagements, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials ...

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What The Hell Are Afghan Army Pickup Trucks Doing In Iraq? - Task & Purpose Sat, 13 May 2017 21:44:36 GMT

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What The Hell Are Afghan Army Pickup Trucks Doing In Iraq?
Task & Purpose
When you spend enough time in Iraq and Afghanistan, the scenery starts to overlap, and you can forget which theater you're currently in. Especially when the Danger Rangers all start to look the same. That was the feeling freelance reporter Courtney ...

Scholarship fund to honor Georgia soldier killed in Iraq - WSB Atlanta Sat, 13 May 2017 11:25:03 GMT

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Scholarship fund to honor Georgia soldier killed in Iraq
WSB Atlanta
Gov. Nathan Deal ordered flags to fly half-staff at all state buildings, calling it a mark of respect for a Georgia soldier killed in action. First Lt. Weston Lee, 25, of Bluffton, Georgia, died while on patrol in Mosul, Iraq. The body of the 25-year ...

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NYPD Officer Killed in Iraq Honored in DC Candlelight Vigil - NBC New York Sun, 14 May 2017 00:50:54 GMT

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NYPD Officer Killed in Iraq Honored in DC Candlelight Vigil
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Staff Sgt. James D. McNaughton was honored at the National Law Enforcement Officer's Memorial. His name was added to the memorial and a candlelight vigil was held in his honor, along with 393 officers that were killed in the line of duty.

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Top Texas Health Official Resigns Amid Questions About Iraq Connection - Houston Press Fri, 12 May 2017 17:22:00 GMT

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Top Texas Health Official Resigns Amid Questions About Iraq Connection
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Stuart Bowen, who was tasked with overseeing $40 billion in health and welfare spending in Texas, was appointed to the post by Governor Abbott in 2015 after he had been the U.S. inspector general for the reconstruction of Iraq. Texas Monthly started ...

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US Wars in the Middle East Were Not Supposed to Bring Democracy, Condoleezza Rice Says - Newsweek Fri, 12 May 2017 23:17:38 GMT

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US Wars in the Middle East Were Not Supposed to Bring Democracy, Condoleezza Rice Says
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"We didn't go to Iraq to bring democracy to Iraq, we went to Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein, who we thought was reconstituting his weapons of mass destruction and who we knew had been a threat in the region. It was a security problem," Rice said.
World Condoleezza Rice: Kurds most competent, coherent group in IraqKurdistan24

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Iraq: UN refugee agency opens twelfth camp as displacement escalates in west Mosul - UN News Centre Fri, 12 May 2017 18:14:02 GMT

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Iraq: UN refugee agency opens twelfth camp as displacement escalates in west Mosul
UN News Centre
The UN refugee agency noted that its current humanitarian efforts to shelter and assist displaced Iraqi families and refugees who fled to Iraq were seriously challenged by waning funding support. “Our programmes in support of refugees and internally ...
Iraq's Shi'ite paramilitaries are squeezing ISIS toward the border with SyriaBusiness Insider
May 16, 2017 Iraq After ISIS Is Defeated In Mosul: A View from KurdistanHeritage.org
PHOTOS: At least 625 people from Mosul, Iraq have become amputeesThe Denver Post
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Iraq: ISIS leaders killed during 'meeting' in al-Qaim - Al-Arabiya Sat, 13 May 2017 20:55:34 GMT

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Iraq: ISIS leaders killed during 'meeting' in al-Qaim
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Iraq: ISIS leaders killed during 'meeting' in al-Qaim. The Iraqi war media cell, announced on Saturday, that they targeted a meeting described as “important” to the leaders of ISIS in the district of Al-Qaim. (AP). Staff writer, Al Arabiya English ...
13 IS militants killed in airstrikes in Iraq's AnbarGlobal Times

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Will Trump Agree to the Pentagon's Permanent War in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria? - Center for Research on Globalization Sat, 13 May 2017 14:48:18 GMT

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Will Trump Agree to the Pentagon's Permanent War in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria?
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The two top national security officials in the Trump administration – Secretary of Defence James Mattis and national security adviser HR McMaster – are trying to secure long-term US ground and air combat roles in the three long-running wars in the ...
NATO will not take part in combat operations in Syria or IraqInSerbia News
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Iraq: Pro-gov't forces take 5 border villages - Anadolu Agency Sat, 13 May 2017 10:35:20 GMT

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Iraq: Pro-gov't forces take 5 border villages
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Pro-government fighters have captured five Iraqi villages near the Syrian border, according to a local military officer. The new development comes as part of a major offensive launched by the Iraqi army to oust Daesh from Mosul, which was overrun by ...
'School is our revenge on Isis': Children fight extremism with education in IraqThe Independent
ISIS downs Iraqi helicopter west of MosulFox News
Breathing freedomGisborne Herald
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