August 8, 2015
WAR, TRADE AND GOLF:
6,000 Airstrikes in Iraq and Syria: A Look At the Numbers (LUIS MARTINEZ, 8/07/15, ABC News)
Saturday marks the one year anniversary of the start of U.S. and coalition airstrikes in Iraq against ISIS. Since then, the military coalition against ISIS has launched nearly 6,000 coalition airstrikes in both Iraq and Syria and the cost of U.S. military operations has risen beyond $3.2 billion.The airstrikes first began a year ago to prevent a humanitarian disaster in northwestern Iraq where ISIS fighters had surrounded thousands of Yazidi refugees trapped on Mount Sinjar.They evolved into a broader effort to slow an ISIS advance towards Baghdad and Erbil in northern Iraq. By late September the airstrike campaign was expanded into Syria to check the terror group's flow of supplies and manpower into Iraq.
Posted by Orrin Judd at August 8, 2015 7:31 AM
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