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U.S.-led offensive aims to retake key Iraqi city from Islamic State, cut off movement capital


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The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group began its first coordinated cross-border offensive on Thursday, driving to retake the key city of Sinjar in northern Iraq while choking off the extremist movement’s capital of Raqqa in Syria.

 

A Kurdish official told The Washington Times that the peshmerga, the armed forces of semiautonomous Kurdistan, have killed more than 100 Islamic State fighters and control a neighborhood inside Sinjar.

 

On one front, a force of 7,500 peshmerga launched a ground attack on Islamic State positions guarding Sinjar, as U.S. airstrikes hit scores of targets in and around the city. Coalition officials say some 95 square miles of territory have been reclaimed from the Islamic State.Scissors-32x32.png


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Obama's new anti-ISIS strategy sees gains

 

Recent gains in the campaign against the Islamic State may mark a turning point for the administration's strategy to defeat the terrorist group, which has taken a beating from his critics as being ineffective and too hands off, according to reports.

 

Kurdish forces aided by U.S. special operations troops launched an offensive Thursday to retake Mount Sinjar and cut off a key supply line the terrorist organization uses to funnel supplies and fighters from Raqqah in Syria to Mosul in Iraq.

 

Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook told reporters on Thursday that the coalition had conducted 36 airstrikes in support of the operation over the last 24 hours.Scissors-32x32.png

 

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obamas-new-anti-isis-strategy-sees-gains/article/2576277

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