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Iraqi town surrounded, cleared, walled off
• UPIU.S. and Iraqi troops have cleared a small city in Iraq of residents and erected a 12-foot high dirt wall. Siniyah is a small town near a critical oil refinery that services northern Iraq and exports to Turkey and other locations. It suffered a