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                    [Title] => Official: Islamic State group battle in Iraq kills 30 Kurds
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Islamic State group fighters attempting to retake a town in northern Iraq held by Kurdish peshmerga forces have killed at least 30 Kurds, an Iraqi military spokesman said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-12 06:23:36 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1747630 [AuthorName] => Sinan Salaheddin [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1406198 [Title] => From Iraqi mountaintop, a fierce battle to free IS-held town [Summary] =>

The road to the battlefront plunges straight down the steep face of Mount Sinjar, whipped by a fierce wind. It is littered with trucks and cars that couldn't get up that incline, abandoned by their owners months ago as they fled the rampage of Islamic State group extremists.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-24 07:18:10 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1242882 [AuthorName] => Dalton Bennett [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1405839 [Title] => Kurdish fighters face resistance from IS in Iraq [Summary] =>

Kurdish fighters in Iraq pushed deeper yesterday into the town of Sinjar, held by the Islamic State group, but are facing stiff resistance from the Sunni militants who captured it in August.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-23 04:06:12 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1242882 [AuthorName] => Dalton Bennett [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1405143 [Title] => Kurds advance against IS group in Syria's Kobani [Summary] =>

Kurdish fighters advanced yesterday in the contested northern Syrian town of Kobani after heavy clashes with the Islamic State group, a Kurdish official and an activist group said.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-21 04:11:02 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1163274 [AuthorName] => Bassem Mroue [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1356013 [Title] => US continues airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq [Summary] =>

The US military on Saturday continued to launch four airstrikes against forces of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq, US Department of Defense said via its official Twitter account.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-10 12:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1356010 [Title] => Obama, Hollande agree on int'l response to help trapped Iraqis [Summary] =>

US President Barack Obama spoke with his French counterpart Francois Hollande about the latest developments in Iraq on Saturday and they agreed on the need for an urgent international response to the humanitarian disaster in Iraq.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-10 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) ) )
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