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Smoke believed to be from an airstrike billows over the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar on Thursday, Nov. 12. Kurdish Iraqi fighters, backed by the U.S.-led air campaign, launched an assault Thursday aiming to retake the strategic town of Sinjar, which the Islamic State overran last year in an onslaught that caused the flight of tens of thousands of Yazidis and first prompted the U.S. to launch airstrikes against the militants. (Associated Press)

Kurds seize Sinjar, city in northern Iraq, from Islamic State’s clutches

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

An Iraqi Army tank prepares to attack Islamic State extremists in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 13, 2015. Iraqi forces entered Tikrit for the first time on Wednesday from the north and south. On Friday, they fought fierce battles to secure the northern Tikrit neighborhood of Qadisiyya and lobbed mortars and rockets into the city center, still in the hands of IS. Iraqi military officials have said they expect to reach the center of Tikrit within two to three days. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Islamic State used chlorine gas as a chemical weapon, Iraqi Kurds say

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