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Airstrikes Begin As U.S. Navy Planes Drop Laser-Guided Bombs on ISIS
Friday, August 8, 2014 6:22
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The United States dropped laser-guided bombs on ISIS artillery in Iraq on Friday, the Pentagon said
The bombs, 500 pounds each, were dropped by two Navy F-18 fighter jets near Erbil, the strategically important city that serves as the Kurdish capital, and where the United States has a consulate. ISIS was using the artillery to shell Kurdish forces defending Erbil, the Pentagon said.
The strikes marked a return to U.S. military engagement in Iraq, three years after Obama removed U.S. forces.
Obama, in a speech Thursday night from the White House, said that he was authorizing airstrikes to protect American interests in Iraq and drops of food and water for tens of thousands of refugees trapped by ISIS on a mountain in Iraq.
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