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Four ISIS leaders were killed during a U.S. military raid last month in western Iraq, according to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).

In a press release published Friday, CENTCOM revealed that it’d conducted a joint raid with the Iraqi Security Forces on Aug. 29th.

Meant “to disrupt and degrade ISIS’ ability to plan, organize, and conduct attacks against Iraqi civilians, as well as U.S. citizens, allies, and partners throughout the region and beyond,” the raid killed 14 terrorists.

Among the 14 killed were four ISIS leaders: “Ahmad Hamid Husayn Abd-al-Jalil al-Ithawi, responsible for all operations in Iraq, Abu Hammam, responsible for overseeing all operations in Western Iraq, Abu-‘Ali al-Tunisi, responsible for overseeing technical development, and Shakir Abud Ahmad al-Issawi, responsible for overseeing military operations in Western Iraq.”

“CENTCOM remains committed to the enduring defeat of ISIS, who continues to threaten the United States, our allies and partners, and regional stability,” CENTCOM commander Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla said in a statement.

The ISIS operatives who were killed were “armed with numerous weapons, grenades, and explosive ‘suicide’ belts,” CENTCOM previously said.

While seven U.S. military troops were injured during the raid, there were no reported civilian casualties.

How is it that there are still troops in Iraq?

“Amid the heightened tensions in the Middle East, Iraq has postponed announcing an end-date for the US-led military coalition’s presence in the country,” CNN notes.

“The US has roughly 2,500 troops currently in Iraq who have been operating there in an ‘advise and assist’ capacity since December 2021, when the US military announced the end of its combat role in the country,” CNN reported Friday.

All this comes 22 years after Congress authorized then-President George W. Bush to use military force in Iraq. Stunningly to many, that authorization remains intact today and is still being used to carry out attacks in Iraq.

A Jan. 4th drone strike on a vehicle in Baghdad killed “at least three members of the Iranian-backed Harakat al-Nujaba militia, which the U.S. accuses of coordinating attacks on U.S. personnel still stationed in the region,” according to TruthOut.

Following the strike, President Joe Biden wrote a memo to Congress citing the 2002 authorization as justification for the strike “within the borders of a sovereign nation considered an ally and without authorization from Congress,” as noted by TruthOut.

All this occurred despite President Biden having previously backed repealing the Iraq War authorization.

“President Joe Biden, who backed the 2003 invasion of Iraq, previously said he supported bipartisan Senate legislation to repeal the 2002 AUMF that was reintroduced by Sen. Tim Kaine in February, but that was before the Biden administration became a stalwart supporter of and supplier for Israel’s extremely deadly retaliatory strikes and invasion of the Gaza Strip,” TruthOut notes.

“The U.S. still has about 2,500 troops in Iraq and another 900 in Syria, ostensibly to help fight the remnants of the Islamic State, which temporarily carved out its own territory in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and Syria’s civil war. It eventually suffered defeat in Iraq and Syria at the hands of an international coalition by 2019,” according to the site.

In fairness, ISIS still remains a threat to Americans. BizPac Review previously reported how migrants from ISIS-linked Tajikistan have been showing up at the southern U.S. border left and right.

Indeed, the number of illegal aliens from Tajikistan that have arrived at the border has “skyrocketed” ever since President Biden, a rabid Democrat, assumed office in early 2021, according to the New York Post.

This is a major problem because Tajikistan is “a hotbed of ISIS recruitment.” Yet over 1,500 Tajiks made it across the border between October 2020 and May 2024 — 500 this year alone.

Now contrast this with past data: “Over the previous 14 years there were just 26 Tajik nationals crossing the border,” the Post notes.

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