Early Thursday morning the prime minister of Iraq, Haider al-Abadi, confirmed that a number of their Iraqi Air Force F-16’s struck several locations just inside of Syria belonging to the Islamic State(ISIS). Prime Minister al-Abadi issued this statement shortly after the Iraqi F-16 sortie returned to Iraq airspace saying, “On the orders of the Commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Dr. Haider …
Category: Iraq
Mortus Discriminatus: The Day I Almost Died in Iraq
The year was just shy of 2008, it was two weeks until Christmas and I was a month into the winter rotation in Mosul, Iraq with 5th Special Forces Group. My team and I were a part of a unit known as A/1/5 CIF, or the Commanders In-extremis Force, and we were young. A/1/5 was a Green Beret unit specifically trained in advanced direct …
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