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Cebu_4_2
8th November 2014, 03:32 PM
U.S. continues strikes against Islamic State in Syria, Iraq: U.S. Central Command

WASHINGTON Wed Nov 5, 2014 1:11pm EST

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(Reuters) - The United States continued its assault on Islamic State militants this week, conducting 14 airstrikes in recent days in Syria and Iraq, U.S. Central Command said in a statement on Wednesday.

From Monday through Wednesday, U.S. military forces launched three strikes near the Syrian border town of Kobani and one strike to the north in Sinjar. The strikes hit a small unit of militant fighters as well as two fighting positions, Central Command said.

In Iraq, the U.S. military along with coalition forces conducted 10 strikes near Mosul, Bayji, Falluja, Ramadi and Sinjar, according to the statement. The strikes destroyed Islamic State buildings near Mosul, including one with a generator used in oil production and another where explosive devices were manufactured, Central Command said.

The other U.S-led strikes in Iraq hit four small units of militant fighters as well as various vehicles, an Islamic State-occupied bunker, an anti-aircraft artillery piece, and a Islamic State checkpoint, according to the statement.

Cebu_4_2
8th November 2014, 03:32 PM
Airstrikes hit Islamic State leaders
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U.S. warplanes attacked what appeared to have been a gathering of top Islamic State leaders in Iraq, destroying a convoy of 10 militant armed trucks, U.S. Central Command said Saturday.

The military could not confirm whether the Islamic State's top leader, Abu Bakr al-Bagdhadi, was killed in the strike Friday, said Col. Patrick Ryder, a spokesman for the command.

The airstrikes were conducted near Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city and a stronghold of the Islamic State since militants seized it in June
If the strike did take out the militant group's top leadership it would be a significant success for the U.S.-led coalition, though insurgent groups have historically been able to regenerate leaders to replace those who have been killed or captured.

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The coalition was not targeting al-Baghdadi or other leaders at the time of the airstrike, said a defense official who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to discuss details of the operation.

Instead, the airstrikes seized on a target of opportunity when they detected what appeared to be a gathering of top leadership, the official said.

The airstrikes come a day after the Pentagon announced that the White House authorized up to 1,500 additional troops to be sent to Iraq, doubling the size of the U.S. presence there.

The troops will work to expand the existing mission to advise Iraqi security forces and establish training facilities, said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary. U.S. advisers will not accompany Iraqi units into the field, but will be at fixed training locations or top level headquarters.

Ponce
8th November 2014, 04:46 PM
All that we are doing is trining THEM to fight us in the future.........how stupid can you be?........and for every one of them that we kill they will have 100 more new people to fight us.........you can defeat the army of a foreign country but never its people.

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