U.S. signals ** strategy shift in Iraq, despite Ramadi's fall

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By Phil Stewart and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States signaled ** intent to shift its strategy in Iraq's war on Monday, even as the fall of the city of Ramadi to Islamic State called into question the relative strength of Iraq's army after months of U.S.-led advising and air strikes. The loss of the western Iraqi city to the militants represents the biggest defeat for Iraq's government since mid-2014, when Islamic State swept into Iraq and seized more than a third of the country. The U.S. government expressed confidence that Iraqi forces, with U.S.-led coalition support, would eventually retake Ramadi, and that the American strategy in Iraq that keeps U.S. forces off the battlefield was still sound.

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