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May 23, 2016

Iraq Launches Bid to Retake Fallujah from ISIS
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi has announced the launch of a major
operation to retake the city of Fallujah from ISIS. Al Jazeera reports
heavy shelling in the area has killed six civilians. Fallujah became the
first Iraqi city conquered by ISIS in January 2014. A decade earlier,
after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the U.S. push to recapture Fallujah
involved the extensive use of depleted uranium and white phosphorus,
leaving a legacy of birth defects that continues today.
Topics:Iraq Islamic State

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