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Al Monitor (26 March 2020)

Elizabeth Hagedorn

The US-led coalition assembled to fight the Islamic State has transferred another military base to the Iraqi security forces as part of a planned drawdown in the country, the coalition said Thursday. 

In handing over Qayyarah Airfield West in northern Iraq, a statement from the coalition noted success in the fight against the militants. 

“The [Iraqi Security Forces] increasingly conducts independent operations in the fight against Daesh and the defense of their homeland,” said Brig. Gen. Vincent Barker, using an alternate term for the Islamic State.

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