Iraqi security forces backed by Shi'ite militias on Sunday broke the two-month siege of Amerli by Islamic State militants and entered the northern town, officials said.
Developments in Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 31
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Mourners carry the coffins of Iraqi Shi'ite volunteers, who were killed during clashes with militants of the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Amerli, during a funeral in Khalis, Iraq, Aug. 31, 2014.
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တပ္မေတာ္ကာကြယ္ေရးဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီး မင္းေအာင္လိႈင္ နဲ႔ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ ဥကၠ႒ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္တို႔ ဒီကေန႔ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ မွာ ေတြ႔ဆံု(သတငး္ဓါတ္ပံု- ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီးမင္းေအာင္လိႈင္ တရား၀င္ ေဖ့စ္ဘုတ္)
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Shiite militiamen patrol in Amirli, 170 kilometers (105 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 31, 2014.
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A general view of road sign and a road in Sulaiman Pek in Salahuddin province, Iraq, Aug. 31, 2014.