{"id":82835,"date":"2018-11-12T12:45:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T16:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82835"},"modified":"2018-11-12T12:11:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T16:11:36","slug":"news-from-the-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82835","title":{"rendered":"News From the Front"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s your morning update on Iraq:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/11\/11\/us-iraqi-forces-kill-dozens-of-islamic-state-fighters\/<\/a><\/p>\n

BAGHDAD — by\u00a0The Associated Press \u2014 The U.S. military says American and Iraqi forces killed more than 50 Islamic State militants, including several commanders, in northern Iraq last month.<\/p>\n

U.S. Central Command said Sunday that an Oct. 30 operation in Salahuddin province killed five ISIS leaders and more than 30 other militants, and that an operation the following day in the Makhmour Mountains killed around 20 ISIS fighters. It says the leaders killed in the first raid were responsible for coordinating attacks across northern and western Iraq.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a short story, but there\u2019s a nice shot of a grenade exploding in a hillside cave.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a link to an earlier story from 11\/05\/18 regarding the reasons that it will take years to decades and possibly a full generation or more to reform the Iraqi military. https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2018\/11\/05\/why-a-self-reliant-iraqi-military-may-take-years-if-not-decades-and-could-require-a-generation-to-reform\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Definitely worth your time to read both stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s your morning update on Iraq: https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/11\/11\/us-iraqi-forces-kill-dozens-of-islamic-state-fighters\/ BAGHDAD — by\u00a0The Associated Press \u2014 The U.S. military … News From the Front<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,232,307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-army-news","category-isis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}