Iraqi forces Thursday launched an assault on the last Islamic State bastion in the country, along the border with Syria, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced.
In 2014, the jihadist group seized nearly a third of Iraq in a lightning sweep. Since then government troops and paramilitary forces have driven them from more than 90 percent of their territory.
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