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U.S. Jets and Drones Attack Militants in Iraq, Hoping to Stop Advance By ALISSA J. RUBIN, TIM ARANGO and HELENE COOPERAmerican warplanes launched airstrikes against Sunni militants in northern Iraq on Friday, destroying rebel positions around Erbil, the Kurdish capital. |
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Fear of ‘Another Benghazi’ Drove White House to Airstrikes in Iraq By MARK LANDLER, ALISSA J. RUBIN, MARK MAZZETTI and HELENE COOPERInterviews with multiple officials in the Obama administration paint a portrait of a president forced by the unexpectedly rapid deterioration of security in Iraq to abandon his longstanding reluctance to use military force. |
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New Fighting a Bid for Leverage as a Gaza Cease-Fire Expires By JODI RUDOREN and ISABEL KERSHNERIsrael and Palestinian militants resumed cross-border air assaults after a three-day cease-fire expired, but the renewed violence seemed less about meeting military goals than about jockeying for leverage in talks that had made little progress.
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