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A Kurdish YPG fighter at a base in northeastern Syria said his M-16 assault rifle, stamped with the words "Property of U.S. Govt," was captured from the Islamic State, which probably took it from the Iraqi army. (Campbell MacDiarmid/Special to The Washington Times)

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An Iraqi Army helicopter flies over the city of Baquba, the capital of Iraq's Diyala province, 35 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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A burned Iraqi army vehicle on a street after clashes between followers of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi and ISIL in Karbala. (Associated Press)

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Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, As the U.S. masses air power on Iraq's doorstep, analysts are warning that missiles and bombs will have limited impact on Islamic militants unless the Iraqi army stops running and starts fighting. (AP Photo/ Nabil Al-Jurani)

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** FILE ** Iraqi army soldiers bring in a blindfolded and handcuffed suspected Al Qaeda member to detention centers in an Iraqi army base in Baghdad, Iraq, July 25, 2012. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Friday, July 20, 2012, file photo, blindfolded and handcuffed suspected al Qaeda members are led away to detention centers in an Iraqi army base in Hillah, Iraq. (AP Photo/ Alaa al-Marjani, File)

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Blindfolded and handcuffed suspected al Qaeda members are led away to detention centers in an Iraqi army base in Hillah, Iraq, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, on Friday, July 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

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A member of the Iraqi army waves the national flag after a ceremony signing over Camp Adder, near Nasiriyah in Iraq, the last United States base in the country, to the Iraqi air force on Friday, Dec. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Lucas Jackson, Pool)

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ON THEIR OWN: Iraqi army soldiers train with an M1 Abrams tank, purchased from the U.S., during an exercise in Baghdad.

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Iraqi army soldiers stand guard near burned trailers (above) at Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad, in April after the army attacked the camp. An outdoor kitchen was also burned (below) and 36 residents of the camp were killed. The top U.N. envoy to Iraq, Martin Kobler, offered on Thursday to broker the peaceful closing of the camp for Iranian exiles, before the government in Baghdad forces its residents out at the end of the year. (Associated Press)

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Iraqi army soldiers stand guard while protesters chant anti-government slogans during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS "We continue to see development ... in their ability to conduct operations," Gen. Raymond T. Odierno said of the Iraqi army.

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Iraqi army soldiers secure the scene of a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. A series of rush-hour bombings across Baghdad has killed and injured scores of people, officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)