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Kurdistan Region Security Council announced more than
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Highway 47, a strategic ISIL supply route to move supplies between Iraq and Syria. According to Kurdish authorities, the objectives were also to cordon off the area
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Kurdistan Region in August 2014, KRSC has been coordinating international coalition airstrikes against ISIL positions. In April and May it announced the arrest of several individuals connected to a car bomb attack near the US Consulate General in
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called the raid 'life-saving' and expected more similar raids with
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