Top US General Assesses IS Fight in Iraq

U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph Dunford flew into Iraq Tuesday to get an in-person assessment of the ongoing fight against Islamic State militants. Dunford told reporters traveling with him on his first visit to Iraq since taking the post October 1 that Iraqi officials have assured him they have not asked Russia to join the group of nations conducting airstrikes there. Russian forces have been bombing in Syria for the past three weeks in a campaign they say includes...

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