While domestic dilemmas have actually dominated the news today, the United States has actually stepped up its campaign of airstrikes against Islamic State goals in north Iraq.<\/p>\r\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/brett_mcgurk\/status\/500774113385152512\r\n
CENTCOM issued a brief press release<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n U.S. armed forces causes proceeded to attack ISIL terrorists in Iraq Saturday (Iraq time), with a mix of fighter and remotely piloted aircraft successfully conducting airstrikes near Irbil as well as the Mosul Dam.<\/p>\r\n U.S. Central Command conducted these attacks under authority to guide humanitarian efforts in Iraq, plus to protect U.S. personnel and facilities.<\/p>\r\n The nine airstrikes carried out so far destroyed or damaged four armored employees companies, seven armed automobiles, two Humvees and an armored car.<\/p>\r\n All aircraft exited the attack places properly.<\/p>\r\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/berhem\/status\/500780060279078913\r\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DougPologe\/status\/500663936145166336\r\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/haaretzcom\/status\/500768193749598208\r\n Don't tell Libs or Obama supporters.\r\nOur company is in Iraq with shoes on the floor calling in airstrikes.\r\nWH wishes it held key. #ISIS<\/a>— Ronnie Spangler (@Mar4L) August 16, 2014<\/a><\/p>\r\n Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/08\/16\/busiest-day-yet-us-conducts-9-airstrikes-on-targets-near-irbil-and-mosul\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/WilliamsJon\/status\/500771761110417408 While domestic dilemmas have actually dominated the news today, the United States has actually stepped up its campaign of airstrikes against Islamic State goals in north Iraq. http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/brett_mcgurk\/status\/500774113385152512 CENTCOM issued a brief press release: U.S. armed forces causes proceeded to attack ISIL terrorists in Iraq Saturday (Iraq time), with a mix of fighter and remotely … Continue reading ‘Busiest day yet’: US conducts 9 airstrikes near Irbil and Mosul<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/14319207377206-isis-fighters.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}