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Grooms from Iraq's Shiite militia and their brides attend a mass wedding ceremony at a club in Karrada neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 15, 2015. About 125 couples got married at the ceremony Monday sponsored by the government. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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U.S. must alter arms flow to retake Mosul from Islamic State, Sunni lawmaker warns

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - This Sept. 21, 2008, file photo shows Iranian basij paramilitary volunteers, affiliated to the elite Revolutionary Guard, attending a parade ceremony, marking the 28th anniversary of the onset of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran.

Iranian commanders on front line of Iraq’s fight against ISIL

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