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On the Front Line in the Bloody Fight to Take Manbij From ISIS
Battle Lines
Who is really taking the lead in this battle? Arabs? Kurds? American Special Forces? The fog of war is complicated here by the fog of politics.
Wladimir van Wilgenburg
Published
Jun. 5 2016
3:58PM EDT
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