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The Hunt: US-led coalition in Middle East attacked by Iran-backed militia

This week, U.S. and Coalition forces in Iraq and Syria, fighting ISIS, were attacked by a militia supported by Iran, despite U.S. airstrikes to push them back.

On this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,” Col. Wayne Marotto, spokesman for the Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve, explains what happened.

 

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Time served for man who threatened Trump with package he said was ‘detonator’

A man from Long Island, New York, has been sentenced on charges of threatening then-President Donald Trump and the White House complex during a March 2017 incident. Jean-Paul Gamarra, 45, of Copiague, was sentenced Thursday after being found guilty on May 27, 2021, of one count each of "threats to the president and threatening and conveying false information concerning the use of an explosive" following a trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, according to the Justice Department.
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