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The War Against ISIS Is Far From Over

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U.S. Army/ Staff Sgt. Jacob Connor

One year into the Trump administration, what are the most complex challenges facing the U.S. military? This is the first installment of THREAT WEEK, our brief series spotlighting some of the Pentagon’s biggest obstacles ahead of President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address.

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8 Of The Worst Places To Sleep

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Benjamin Franklin nailed it when he said, "Fatigue is the best pillow." True story, Benny. There's nothing like pushing your body so far past exhaustion that you'd willingly, even longingly, take a nap on a concrete slab.

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And no one knows that better than military service members and we have the pictures to prove it.

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We Asked You For The Biggest Military Stories Of 2017. Here Are The Top 21

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How do you make sense of 2017? Maybe you don’t. But you can’t deny that it was a defining year for the United States military, which got a shiny new chain of command, renewed interest from the U.S. public at large, and a whole lot of weird news day after day. Task & Purpose asked you, our readers, what you thought our community’s biggest stories were this year, and these are the results.

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Artillery Marines Headed Home After ‘Raining’ Fire On ISIS In Syria

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A contingent of roughly 400 Marines are headed home from Syria after three months of providing fire support to U.S.-backed Kurdish and Syrian Arab Forces who battled Islamic State fighters in the militant group’s former capital.

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The US Secretly Let Thousands Of Armed ISIS Fighters Escape Raqqa In Broad Daylight

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A deal between U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab forces in Syria and ISIS sent thousands of fighters and families belonging to the terror group on a convoy out of harm's war in Raqqa and deeper into the so-called caliphate where the fighters can regroup or smuggle themselves into other countries.

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How Much Territory Has ISIS Lost In Iraq And Syria? Check These Maps

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Since ISIS made international headlines by invading Iraq from Syria in June of 2014, its territory has shrunken considerably. The terrorist group's steady loss of territory culminated in the fall of its de facto capital of Raqqa, Syria last week.

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