Iraq

Forty-two Syrian soldiers and seven Iraqi troops were killed in an ambush in Anbar province. The Iraqi soldiers were escorting the Syrian troops, who left their country, to Baghdad.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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