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Iraq
US to setup 4 new military bases along Syrian border: report
2019-01-11
[ALMASDARNEWS] Just one month after U.S. President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
announced that his nation’s armed forces were withdrawing from Syria, an Iraqi publication reported that the American forces were building four new bases in the western part of Iraq’s al-Anbar Governorate.

"The U.S. intends to set up four permanent bases that are equipped with advanced military equipment in different cities across the al-Anbar province," the Arabic-language al-Maloumeh news website said, quoting a security source in the al-Anbar Governorate.

The source noted that the U.S. military bases will be established in the Ma’askar Tareq area of Fallujah,
... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids...
San al-Zeib base north of al-Baghdadi, al-Khafaseh in the town of Hadisa, and one base between the Ravah and Biji areas of al-Ramadi.

"The number of the U.S. military bases in Iraq’s al-Anbar province will increase to 9 after the four bases are set up," the report added.

Iraq’s al-Anbar Governorate border Syria’s Deir Ezzor province, which is where the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) maintains their last major pocket between the two historical lands.

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