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According to the NYT’s:
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<div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said in Brussels on Wednesday that the offensive to
oust the Islamic State, also known as </span><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/al_qaeda_in_mesopotamia/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria." class="meta-org" style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 17px;">ISIS</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> or
ISIL, from Raqqa would begin within weeks."</span></div>
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