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Iraqi forces begin to drive Islamic State from the militants' last major stronghold in the country on Monday, in their largest operation since the U.S. withdrew its troops.
Two men who campaigned against Islamic State were killed in southern Turkey, where they worked. Diane Hodges reports.
Iraq's armed forces, backed by Shi'ite militia, attacked Islamic State strongholds north of Baghdad in an offensive to retake the city of Tikrit and the surrounding Sunni Muslim province of Salahuddin. Jillian Kitchener reports.
US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby tells reporters that the Islamic Resistance in Iraq group was behind a drone attack that killed three American soldiers at a base in Jordan. SOUNDBITE
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