" With a handful of powerful air strikes the US has re-entered a
battle zone it officially abandoned two-and-a-half years ago and all but
absconded from even earlier. This has eased pressure on both Kurdish
and Iraqi forces struggling to contain the Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant, the al-Qaeda offshoot army known as Isis, that has been seizing
territory in the country’s north for two months. "
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