11th July 2016: U.S. to Deploy 560 More Troops to Iraq, Defense Secretary Ash Carter Says President Barack Obama has approved the additional deployment announced Monday, which will bring the total number of U.S. servicemen in Iraq to around 4,600. [Source: NBCNews]

Over the last fortnight, there has been a spate of horrific Islamophobic attacks on Muslims in the US. On the 3rd of July, Al Jazeera and other media outlets reported that a Muslim doctor was stabbed and then shot twice while heading to the mosque for Fajr prayers in the US city of Houston, Texas.

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