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| Iraq |
| Iraq Kurds Launch Major Offensive to Retake Sinjar from IS |
| 2015-11-13 |
| [AnNahar] Iraqi Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-led strikes launched a major operation Thursday to retake the town of Sinjar from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group and cut a key supply line to Syria. Severing the supply line would hamper the jihadists' ability to move fighters and supplies between northern Iraq and Syria, two countries where IS has overrun significant territory. |
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