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Barky’s “JV Team” Defeated in Raqqa

Via Fox News  The spokesman for U.S.-backed forces fighting Islamic State militants in Syria says the fighters are removing land mines and clearing main roads in the city of Raqqa, a day after they announced it was captured. Mustafa Bali, the Syrian Democratic Forces spokesman, says preparations are also underway on Wednesday for a formal …

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US Army 4th Stryker Bde Leaves Iraq

HOOAH! A line of heavily armored American military vehicles, their headlights twinkling in the pre-dawn desert, lumbered past the barbed wire and metal gates marking the border between Iraq and Kuwait early Thursday and rolled into history. For the troops of the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, it was a moment of relief fraught …

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Al Qaeda Leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri Killed by U.S./Iraqi Forces

They finally drove a stake in the mutherfucker’s heart. The U.S. military confirmed Monday that Al Qaeda in Iraq leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Umar al-Baghdadi were killed early Sunday morning in a raid led by U.S. and Iraqi forces, after a week of operations led them to a safehouse where the terror chiefs …

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Iraqis Go To The Polls In Spite of Terrorist Threats

Think about this the next time you go to your neighborhood polls. Polls closed across Iraq on Sunday as the war-weary population awaits results from the national election that will decide the future of the country’s still-fragile democracy. The election tested the mettle of the country’s shaky security as insurgents killed 31 people across Iraq, …

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American Troops Pull Out From Major Iraqi Cities

Mission. Accomplished. Iraqi forces officially assumed control of Baghdad and other cites across the country early Tuesday, following the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from urban areas. Celebrations in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, include music, dance and poetry. ……Interior Minister Jawad Boulani told journalists the U.S. withdrawal is almost complete and Iraqi forces are capable …

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