By Richard Tomkins, Middle East Times
HIMBUS , Iraq, Jan. 28 (UPI) — U.S. military operations have transitioned from kinetic warfare to outreach efforts to root out al-Qaida-Iraq operatives hiding among the people in newly liberated areas of the northern Diyala River Valley.
Earlier this week hundreds of Iraqis queued in the dirt outside an elementary school in Iraq’s Northern Diyala River Valley to benefit from a major outreach effort by U.S. and Iraqi military doctors — the first free medical clinic for residents of the town of Himbus and its surrounding villages. continue story
