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Three Isis fighters 'mauled to death by wild boars'
Three Isis fighters were reportedly killed by wild boars on Iraqi farmland controlled by the group. The militants had been trying to remove the animals near Kirkuk in the al-Rashad region when the boars went on a “rampage”, Iraqi News reports. One source claimed other Isis members “took revenge on the pigs” after the fatal attack occurred.
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A Father Describes Saving His Daughter From U.S. Bombardment of Mosul
Four-year-old Awra Ali was nearly blinded in a U.S.-led coalition strike in Mosul. She’s among the unprecedented number of civilians harmed in strikes in March. By Anna Lekas Miller. (Apr. 16 2017)
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Coalition concedes that ‘ISIS HQ’ it bombed in 2015 was a family home
The US-led Coalition has conceded that a supposed ‘ISIS headquarters’ it targeted at Mosul in September 2015 was in fact a family home, noting in its latest civilian casualty release that “four civilians were unintentionally killed and two civilians were unintentionally injured in the building.” Four members of the Rezzo family died when Coalition aircraft bombed their suburban Mosul villa on the night of September 20th-21st 2015. Despite a record 558 days between the incident and the Coalition’s public admission of error on April 1st, officials had known of possible civilian deaths within hours of the attack.
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Iraqi Woman Shoots Dead ISIS Commander That Once Made Her A Sex Slave
A woman, believed to be of the Yazidi-Kurdish minority, shot and killed senior Islamic State commander Abu Anas just outside the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, Iraq. The woman is a part of a group of Iraqi women, who are growing in numbers that are fighting against ISIS, the terrorist organization that abused them for so long.
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Isis will be defeated in Iraq 'within weeks', says country's Prime Minister
Isis will be defeated in Iraq “within weeks”, according to the country's prime minister, Haider al-Abadi. Insisting they would “definitely” be driven from the country, Mr Abadi made the comments as his country's armed forces continue their campaign to retake the northern city of Mosul from the terrorist group. The city is Isis’ last remaining stronghold in the country. However, Mr Abadi admitted the group, which is also known as Daesh, will continue to maintain strongholds in Syria.
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You probably haven't heard about this Muslim pilgrimage in defiance of Isis
Millions of Shia Muslims have taken part in one of the biggest marches in the world, as they travel through Iraq in celebration of a famous Muslim martyr.
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Islamic State frees Mosul prisoners as grip on last major city slips
Islamic State has released dozens of prisoners held in jails in the districts of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul that remain under its control, residents said on Saturday. The release of the prisoners on Friday is another sign that the militants are being overwhelmed by the U.S.-backed Iraqi offensive that started on Oct. 17 to dislodge them from Mosul, their last major city stronghold in Iraq.
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Previously untouched 600BC palace discovered under shrine demolished by Isil in Mosul
Archaeologists documenting Isil’s destruction of the ruins of the Tomb of the Prophet Jonah say they have made an unexpected discovery which could help in our understanding of the world’s first empire. The Nebi Yunus shrine - containing what Muslims and Christians believe to be the tomb of Jonah, as he was known in the Bible, or Yunus in the Koran - was blown up by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) militants soon after they seized huge swathes of northern Iraq in 2014.
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Security Advisor candidate David Petraeus implicated in Iraqi Torture
The former CIA Director David Petraeus was appointed to key military posts under Obama and played an active role in Trump’s transition to the Presidency, despite leaked memos revealing that he was involved in human rights abuses in Iraq back in 2010. David Petraeus’ career since the abuses took place has spanned national intelligence, military command, senior fellowships and honorary professorial roles at Universities, and investment banking.
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‘Donald Trump destroyed my life,’ says barred Iraqi who worked for U.S.
The photos of the Sharef family spoke volumes about their plight. In the first two, the Iraqis are happily seated on their plane, smiling. They were flying from their home in Irbil to New York. In the next few, they are seated in Cairo’s airport, their faces glum and haggard. By then, they had been taken off their plane — and informed they could no longer travel to the United States.
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Who supplies the news?
Misreporting in Syria and Iraq. By.Patrick Cockburn.
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Sixty ISIS terrorists killed by Iraqi forces
Iraqi forces have killed sixty ISIS terrorists during clashes in two Iraqi provinces. Abdulamir Rashid Yarallah, the commander of the liberation operation for the city of Mosul, said that Iraqi airstrikes have killed 42 ISIS members in the villages of Kheybarat and A’alabyeh as well as in the al-Mahlabyeh district in Western Mosul, in Iraqi Nineveh Province. The commander said the terrorists were waiting in ambush as Iraqi forces attacked them.
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Mosul battle: Iraqi army prepares offensive on west of city
The Iraqi army says it is preparing military operations to retake western Mosul, the last urban stronghold in Iraq of so-called Islamic State. The preparations follow a recent offensive which officials said on Wednesday had recaptured nearly all of the city's east. Counter-terror chief Talib Shaghati said special forces had retaken all eastern districts assigned to them.
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Deja vu for U.S. troops celebrating Christmas in Iraq again
"This is the third Christmas that Staff Sergeant Magdiel Asencio is spending in Iraq. For Sergeant First Class Noel Alvarado, it is number four...." By Stephen Kalin.
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Is the Battle for Mosul Doomed?
ISIS is vastly overpowered—but has dug in its heels. By Daniel L. Davis.
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Mosul Dam collapse ‘will be worse than a nuclear bomb’
Warnings by scientists and environmentalists about an imminent collapse are dismissed by Iraqi officials as far-fetched. [Not so much.] By Barbara Bibbo.
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Iraqi forces grind on in east Mosul as political rift opens over Shi’ite militias
Iraq’s sectarian political leaders have plunged back into a dispute over the status of Shi’ite armed groups, undermining efforts to reunite the country as its troops press on with the assault of Mosul, Islamic State’s biggest stronghold. By Michael Georgy, Isabel Coles and John Davison.
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Iraqi forces cut off Islamic State’s last supply line to Mosul, setting stage for bloody end game
Forces battling the Islamic State group in northern Iraq have cut off the jihadists’ last supply line from Mosul to Syria, trapping them in the city for a bloody last stand. A day after the last major bridge over the Tigris in Mosul was bombed by the US-led coalition against IS, elite forces fighting in the east of the city also reported significant progress.
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‘Isis is full of killers, the worst come from Tal Afar’: Bitter fight for city ahead and the violence may not end there
The city of Tal Afar has become notorious for sectarian hatred - with many worried that even an Isis defeat on the road to Mosul will not bring peace. By Patrick Cockburn.
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ISIS teenager kills his entire family after his suicide belt explodes
A teenager who had been recruited by the Islamic State in Mosul killed the whole of his six-member family when his explosive belt went off inside their home east of the city. Three children were reportedly among those killed by the unnamed boy's explosive device. The boy, who belonged to the so-called 'Cubs of the Caliphate' squad, had been given the suicide belt by other members of the terror group, Alsumaria News reports.
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