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Baghdad, Iraq (CNN)ISIS has closed off a dam to the north of the Iraqi city of Ramadi -- seized by its forces last month -- cutting water supplies to pro-government towns downstream and making it easier for its fighters to attack forces loyal to Baghdad, local officials and residents said. ISIS militants are opening only two or three of the dam's 26 gates on the Euphrates River for brief periods daily, the officials and residents said. The head of the security council in the town of Khalidiyah, Sheikh Ibrahim Khalaf al-Fahdawi, and two residents of the nearby town of Habbaniya...

An improvised explosive device killed three soldiers and wounded three others in Iskandariyah, Iraq, south of Baghdad Jan. 27. This attack came about seven hours after another IED had killed three other U.S. soldiers in Khalidiyah, west of Baghdad. Combined Joint Task Force 7 officials said the wounded soldiers were taken to the 28th Combat Support Hospital. No report on their condition was available. Officials are withholding all the soldiers' names until their families are notified. Also Jan. 27, Task Force Ironhorse soldiers killed three armed attackers who confronted them as they raided four locations in Bayji looking for members...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 11/27/03 - Baghdad, Fallujah, Gardeza, Ghazni, Kabul, Karbala, Khalidiyah, Samawah BREAKING: Baghdad - Freedom (if they can keep it) courtesy of the USA BREAKING: Gardeza, Ghazni - Freedom (if they can keep it) courtesy of the USA BREAKING: Kabul - Freedom (if they can keep it) courtesy of the USA BREAKING: Fallujah, Karbala, Khalidiyah, Samawah - Freedom (if they can keep it) courtesy of the USA QFN ==== QUAGMIRE-FREE NEWS HAPPY THANKSGIVING I am thankful that the terrorists in Afghanistan are dead or on the run, and that Afghanistan is free. =========...