ABU DHABI / WAM H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and ...
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BAGHDAD / AP Iraq’s elite counterterrorism forces say they have entered the center of a strategically important western Islamic State-held town. Government forces reached the center of Hit on Wednesday. The operation to retake the small Euphrates river town — initially launched last month — was stalled by politics, heavy IS resistance and tens of thousands of trapped civilians. Iraqi ...
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