Qanus Island

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Qanus Island is a river island located in the Tigris River in Saladin Governorate, northern Iraq. After it became a staging area for the terrorist organization Islamic State during an insurgency in the 2010s, it was bombed on 10 September 2019. American F-15 and F-35 fighter jets dropped 40 tonnes of explosives (more than 80, 000 pounds of GPS-guided bombs) by the US-led coalition forces. According to Major General Eric T Hill, "We're denying Daesh the ability to hide on Qanus Island".

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