The Latest on the interconnected conflicts in Iraq and Syria (all times local): 3.00 p.m. Iraqi officials say troops have recaptured a key village outside the Islamic State-held city of Mosul after days of heavy fighting. Lt. Col. Mohammed al-Wagaa of the Iraqi army said troops retook the village of al-Nasr, near the Tigris river, on Monday, after destroying six suicide car bombers that had tried to attack them. He says a Sunni tribal leader, Sheikh Faris al-Sabawi, was killed by an IS sniper who stayed behind in the village. Mukhlis al-Habi, a Sunni militia commander, confirms the killing of al-Sabawi, who commanded hundreds of Sunni fighters and received aid from the Baghdad government....
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