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Iraqi forces retake last ISIS-held town
cnn.com ^ | 11/17/17 | Hamdi Alkhshali

Posted on 11/17/2017 3:46:26 PM PST by cotton1706

Iraqi forces have retaken the town of Rawa from ISIS, one of the militant group's last footholds in the country. The Iraqi national flag was raised over Rawa around midday Friday, Iraq's Joint Operation Command (IJOC) said in a statement.

A spokesman for the command told CNN that engineers laid down a pontoon bridge across the Euphrates River around dawn to allow Iraqi forces to cross near the outskirts of the town.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections
Trump has been in office 300 days!
1 posted on 11/17/2017 3:46:26 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

WINNING...


2 posted on 11/17/2017 3:50:29 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT (Thank you Free Republic. Thank you President Donald J Trump, Greatest election Ever.)
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To: cotton1706

Seems like we’re hearing once a week that they’ve re-taken their last town.


3 posted on 11/17/2017 3:55:26 PM PST by be-baw
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To: cotton1706
Thankfully Obama set up the Iraqis for victory over ISIS before leaving office. /s

Seriously, how long before the next internal struggle in Iraq causes world tension?

4 posted on 11/17/2017 3:57:29 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: cotton1706

To think that many lives could have been saved while Obama “nuanced” his way through this. He was the cause of so much suffering and death. Trump has been in for less than a year...


5 posted on 11/17/2017 4:08:59 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: fuzzylogic

Where are the revenge slaughter stories upon ISIS people?


6 posted on 11/17/2017 5:48:47 PM PST by Surrounded_too
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