US Troops Mount Attack in Iraq
U.S. Marines launched their biggest offensive so far this year against al Qaeda guerrillas in western Iraq when the military said 2,500 troops moved on Tuesday against militants around Haditha.
Two months after a previous bid to push Islamist fighters out of the area, Operation River Gate was intended to stop al Qaeda operating in the city and two nearby towns, Haqlaniya and Barwana, and to “free the local citizens from the terrorists’ campaign of murder and intimidation”, a military statement added.
Source: Reuters.
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