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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on June 24, 2017, 08:29:12 am
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Pentagon: Islamic State Problem 'Not Getting Better' in Afghanistan
By Carla Babb June 22, 2017
The United States military has spilled its blood, spent immense amounts of cash and even dropped a munition called the "Mother of All Bombs" in an effort to root out Islamic State's affiliate in Afghanistan.
But despite these efforts, the Islamic State-Khorasan problem in Afghanistan is "not getting better," Chief Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White told VOA Wednesday in her first sit-down, on-camera interview since joining the Pentagon team.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2017/06/mil-170622-voa02.htm