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In a northern town brutalized by IS, Iraq tests its power

by Samya Kullab
| December 24, 2020 12:10 AM

SINJAR, Iraq (AP) — One by one, the flags belonging to a patchwork of armed forces were lowered in a northern Iraqi town once brutalized by the Islamic State group. The territorial claims symbolized by each were replaced by the fluttering of just one: The Iraqi state’s.

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