US Conducts New Iraqi Airstrikes Against Islamic State Insurgents

The United States carried out a new round of airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq on Sunday. The U.S. Defense Department said its forces conducted a wave of attacks over three and a half hours. The Pentagon said fighter jets and drone aircraft destroyed an armed truck that was firing on Kurdish forces near Irbil, and then followed up with four more attacks on other armed trucks and a mortar position. It was the fourth set of U.S airstrikes since President Barack Obama...

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