US Military Campaign Against Islamic State Ramps Up
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The U.S. military has waged a series of large strikes on the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria and Iraq over the past month in what appears to be an uptick in the decade-long campaign against the group -- operations punctuated by an Islamic State-inspired attack in New Orleans by an Army veteran on New Year's Day. However, Pentagon officials and outside experts said the seemingly increased tempo in the campaign to snuff out the group, which began in 2014 with airstrikes in the two
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