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Libyan forces battle snipers on Thursday (August 18) in their ongoing campaign to recapture Sirte from Islamic State militants. Nathan Frandino reports.
Women living in Haji Ali, a group of villages numbering about 40,000 people in northern Iraq about 40 miles south of Mosul, have taken up arms to protect the area from Islamic State militants. IS-controlled villages are only about a mile away, so women have learned how to use weapons and have started guarding their families' houses at night, in order to help their men, which rotate in and out of the frontline. Villagers fear that IS could sneak across the Tigris river and into the village under the cover of night, and are complaining that locals don't have enough weapons to defend themselves.
Libyan forces are preparing for a final push to oust Islamic State from its former North African stronghold of Sirte. Nathan Frandino reports.
Libyan forces fighting Islamic State street by street for control of the coastal city of Sirte say they are disappointed with the lack of support from the international community. Diane Hodges reports.
Shi'ite Muslim militias battle Islamic State fighters in Baiji, a day after they break a siege of Iraq's largest oil refinery just outside the town. Nathan Frandino reports.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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