MOSUL Nike Air VaporMax Plus Women's Green White , Iraq, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi paramilitary Hashd Shaabi units on Monday reached the Iraqi-Syrian border after they dislodged Islamic State (IS) militants from towns and villages during their push to the border line, the units said in a statement.

The Hashd Shaabi units pushed in the early morning to border line from the newly-freed town of al-Qahtaniyah, which itself located some 18 km east of the Syrian border, making their first arrival to the border line in south of Sinjar mountain, the statement said.

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Baaj and al-Qairwan are located in the rugged sprawling area in south of the town of Sinjar, some 100 km west of Mosul, and extend further to the Iraqi-Syrian border in the west.

The predominantly Shiite Hashd Shaabi units, backed by army's helicopter gunships, also freed the villages of Wadi al-Miedar and Taro while they were advancing from al-Qahtaniyah to the Syrian border, the statement said.

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Other Hashd Shaabi units are taking positions near the IS-held Baaj and took control of IS supply routes around the town in order to isolate it and liberate the town later.

The latest advance is part of a major offensive designed to secure the border areas with neighboring Syria and cut off IS supply routes between Mosul and the Syrian city of Raqqa, the capital of the IS self-declared caliphate.

Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who is also the Commander-in-Chief of Iraqi forces, arrived to the Hashd Shaabi's Operations Command headquarters in west of Mosul and held a meeting with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Hashd Shaabi units, the units said in a brief statement.

The operations near the Syrian border came as Iraqi security forces Nike Air VaporMax Plus Women's Light Menta White Blue , backed by the anti-IS international coalition, were simultaneously conducting a major offensive to dislodge IS militants from their major stronghold in western Mosul.

Mosul, 400 km north of Baghdad, has been under IS control since June 2014, when government forces abandoned their weapons and fled, enabling IS militants to control parts of Iraq's northern and western regions.

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Indifferent to fame or fortune, Liu cared deeply for those in need, Shao recalled. The former primary school teacher devoted half her life to special education.

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Shao, 30, joined the CPC in 2013 while he was at Tsinghua University. He is one of the newer members of the 88.8-million-strong party. The world's largest political party is accepting more and more young members as it nears its 96th anniversary on July 1.

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RESPONSIBILITY

Shao regards Party membership as "a responsibility," a word mentioned by many young Party members when asked.

After graduation last year, the doctoral graduate of Public Administration could have chosen to work in the city, but he decided to follow in his grandma's footsteps: To work for the needy.

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Ninghua is one of the four starting points of the "Long March," the 10,000-km historic trek of Chinese communists between 1934 and 1935. The historic setting has not only given Shao insight into the hardships endured by the Chinese Red Army, but also the current state of the underdeveloped local economy.

Shao wants to help families shake off poverty. The young deputy mayor is in charge of trade and tourism, so he is drafting proposals to bring fortune to the old revolutionary base through e-commerce and red tourism.

As a Party member, Shao said, he is guided by the Party's code of conduct Nike Air VaporMax Utility Womens , which encourages him to take concrete measures and to avoid empty talk.

HONOR

Starting from Ninghua, Red Army troops trekked to Yan'an City in northwest China's Shaanxi Province. This was where Gao Yu, 30, was born and grew up.

Raised in the "Red Cradle" of the Chinese revolution, since childhood Gao has been surrounded by reminders of how the Party led the revolution and achieved national independence.

Being a Party member is an honor, he says. "Membership is a sign of excellence."

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