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COVER FEATURE
END OF THE IRAQ WAR FOR THE UNITED STATES?
After nearly nine years, Operation Iraqi Freedom/New Dawn ended as the last convoys crossed from Iraq into Kuwait. But is the war going to be a victory? Only time will tell.
By Lt. Col. Michael E. Silverman, US Army (Ret.)

AMERICA AT WAR
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TOP TERRORIST KILLED
A UAV strike killed a top militant in Northwest Pakistan.
http://www.sofmag.com/us-drone-kills-top-militant-nw-pakistan

Video by 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit

Pakistani intelligence sources say a U.S. drone strike in northwest Pakistan has killed a senior militant with links to al-Qaida.

Badar Mansoor was killed in the attack early Thursday at a house in Miran Shah, the main town in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal agency. His death was confirmed by members of the Pakistani Taliban.

Officials say Mansoor led a group of Taliban fighters in the region and had close ties to al-Qaida. He was allegedly involved in a number of attacks throughout Pakistan.

Four other militants were also killed in the missile strike.

Al-Qaida's leader says the Somalia-based militant group al-Shabab has joined the terrorist network.

An Internet monitoring service said Thursday that al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri delivered the news in a video message.

According to the SITE Intelligence Group, al-Zawahiri gave “glad tidings” in his remarks, and announced al-Shabab has joined al-Qaida's jihadist movement against what he called the “Zionist-Crusader campaign.”

Al-Shabab has previously said it is aligned with al-Qaida, and in June pledged allegiance to al-Zawahiri, after U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden.