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Anbar op aims to restore Iraqi-Syrian border

Iraqi security forces launched an offensive in Anbar province in early September to cleanse the key Islamic State-held town of Qaim on the Syrian border.

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Iraqi forces fire preliminary shells from the area of al-Sakrah during a military operation to push out the Islamic State from a nearby village in Anbar province, Iraq, Sept. 12, 2017. — MOADH AL-DULAIMI/AFP/Getty Images

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