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U.S. to prepare a range of options to help Iraqi Security Forces to counter Sunni insurgents. | |||
Citing
the “huge investments and sacrifices” Americans have made
in Iraq, President Barack Obama said today that he has asked his national
security team to prepare a range of options to help Iraqi security forces
stop rapidly advancing Sunni insurgents who have overrun much of the country’s
north, control most of Anbar province and are now threatening the capital,
Baghdad. |
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Iraqi army soldiers and police officers conduct a routine security patrol in Bulayz, Iraq. |
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Obama
said assistance for Iraq’s security forces is necessary because
of the “significant gains” Sunni fighters from the Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria have made in the past several days, taking over
the country’s second-largest city, Mosul, and continuing to push
southward toward the Iraqi capital while overrunning Tikrit and several
other towns and threatening several of Iraq’s Shiite shrines. |
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