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From Jawa Report
An
offensive to wrest control of a critical dam in northern Iraq from
Sunni militants continued on Monday, as Kurdish and Iraqi forces tried
to clear the area of mines and booby traps.
The
campaign, which represents the most highly coordinated operation
involving U.S., Kurdish and Iraqi forces since American troops left Iraq
in 2011, began on Sunday and appeared to have beaten back much of the
Islamic State's fighters occupying the area in and around the Mosul Dam.
By
early Monday, Iraqi military officials said the strategic post had been
retaken. Gen. Qassim Atta, a spokesman for Iraq's military in Baghdad,
said the Iraqi flag was flying over the site and the military was now
working on dismantling 170 explosives planted there by Islamic State
militants.
...The
ground campaign followed nearly two dozen U.S. airstrikes over the
weekend. Jet fighters and armed drones targeted insurgent positions near
the dam and at Erbil, capital of the semiautonomous Kurdish region,
according to the U.S. Central Command, which oversees American forces in
the Middle East.
The
U.S. has conducted roughly 50 airstrikes in Iraq since Aug. 8. when
President Barack Obama authorized U.S. air support after the Islamic
State gained ground and fears that the Yazidi minority in the region
would be targeted by the militants.
The
airstrikes will continue until the Peshmerga and Iraqi security forces
can retake the position, a U.S. defense official said.
And to make matters worse for ISIS, its now their dead burnt bodies that are appearing on the internet.
yrian
war planes bombed positions belonging to the jihadist Islamic State of
Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) in the northern province of Raqqa for a
second day Monday, an activist group said.
Regime
planes killed 31 jihadists and eight civilians Sunday in an
unprecedented wave of aerial bombardment against the group in its Raqqa
bastion.
The
bombing continued Monday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights, with at least 14 raids against jihadist positions.
There was no immediate death toll in the renewed bombing.
Three
raids targeted the area around the town of Tabqa in western Raqqa and
four hit near the Tabqa military airport, the only remaining regime-held
position in the province.
The other seven strikes hit sites inside Raqqa city, the provincial capital.
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