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RFE/RL: Iraqi forces drive Islamic State from border crossing with Syria

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Published June 18, 2017 at 9:45 am

Iraqi forces, consisting of the Iraqi federal police and the elite Rapid Response Division, patrol in the Shifa neighbourhood, on the west bank of Mosul, on June 17, where they are battling some of the last members of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group in the city.

Photo by AFP

The Iraqi military says its forces and Sunni tribal fighters have driven Islamic State (IS) extremists out of the Al-Waleed border crossing near Syria, nearly three years to the day after the town fell to IS.

The military statement on June 17 said U.S. and Iraqi aircraft supported ground troops in the offensive on the western edge of Iraq.