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The Islamic State (Part 5)

On August 8, nearly three years after the United States pulled out of Iraq, President Barack Obama ordered airstrikes to commence on Islamic State positions in northern Iraq, as the group's fighters advanced towards the Kurdish capital of Erbil. For six weeks prior to the strikes, the Islamic State made...

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