[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Iraqi forces retook a key strategic town from Islamic State forces of Evil today in a victory that has been hailed as a possible turning point in the fight against jihadis overrunning the country.Barwanah, in Iraq's Anbar province, has been gripped by vicious fighting for months since IS fighters overran the region last December.
But yesterday, after American warplanes carried out strikes in the area, Iraqi troops finally broke through IS defences as part of a major operation to wrest back the province from the clutches of the krazed killer horde.
The news came as key Arab allies vowed to 'destroy' the Islamic State 'wherever it is' and do more to stop radical jihadists journeying from their homelands to join the 'holy war' waged in Iraq and Syria.
And in a further boost to the fight against IS in Iraq and Syria, La Belle France today pledged to join America's
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
made the first visit by a foreign head of state since the krazed killer group took hold.
The ten Middle Eastern allies, including Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Leb, made the announcement to crush the IS insurgency following a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John F.
I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
in the Red Sea coastal city of Jiddah.
But the summit was held under a shadow yesterday after NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
member Turkey refused to join in, signaling the struggle the U.S. faces in trying to get front-line nations to put aside their regional animosities and work together to defeat a common enemy.