(VOA News) U.S. fighter jets and drone aircraft carried out a wave of airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq on Sunday, targeting armed trucks and a mortar position, in the fourth set of U.S. airstrikes since President Obama last week authorized the new campaign in Iraq. The U.S. is attempting to thwart the Islamic State advance in northern Iraq that threatens to overrun Irbil, the capital of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
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