Cat-and-mouse game continues in bid to defeat ISIS
Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) along the Iraqi roadside remains a chief security concern in the battle against ISIS but threats from incoming adversarial drones are continuing to evolve and pose new challenges.
Fresh off a rotational deployment to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Kuwait, the US Army's 3rd Brigade Combat Team (BCT), 10th Mountain Division Commander Col Brian Sullivan talked with reporters on 25 July about the threats ISIS pose to troops in the region.
'ISIS and other similar groups that are operating within Iraq, remain capable and they remain a credible threat,' he said. 'It is what you would expect
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