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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

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Giving Directions

Maj. Gen. Sirwan Barzani, a peshmerga commander, shows Army Col. Scott Holden, Kurdistan Coordination Center director, the town of Gwer, which was at one point under the control of ISIS when they covered much of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Dec. 14, 2019.

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