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11 Dead In Iraq Attack Blamed On ISIS: Report
At least 11 people were killed late Tuesday in an attack on a village in eastern Iraq blamed on the Islamic State group, security sources said.
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US Ally Declares Fall Of ISIS "Caliphate", Last Village Captured
ISIS has been defeated at its final shred of territory of Baghouz in Syria, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Saturday, announcing the end of its self-declared "caliphate" that once spanned a third of Iraq and Syria.
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ISIS Terrorists In Iraq Kill 5 Of A Family Who Fought Against The Group
ISIS group jihadists killed five members of the same family at a checkpoint on the edge of their village north of Baghdad early on Saturday, a police official said.
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Years After His Hanging, Mystery Over Saddam Hussein's Resting Place
In his native village of Al-Awjah, the mausoleum of Iraq's executed dictator Saddam Hussein has been reduced to broken concrete and tangled barbed wire, showing no trace of his remains.
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Mortal Remains Of Last Man, Among 39 Killed In Iraq, Consigned To Flames In Punjab
The mortal remains of one of the 39 Indians killed in ISIS captivity in Iraq were consigned to flames on Wednesday. Gurdeep Singh, whose last rites of were performed at his native village Jaitpur in Punjab, is survived by his mother Surinder Kaur, wife Anita Rani, a 5-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter.
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Liberation From ISIS Brought Relief. Then Came Flashes Of Revenge
The scene in Muneira, on the Tigris River in northern Iraq, offered a glimpse into the struggles of one Sunni Arab village in the year since the government drove the militants away: a place beset by suspicions, troubled by violence while coping, like much of the country, with death and loss.
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Here's How Women In Saudi Arabia Reacted To News That They'll Finally Be Allowed To Drive
In 1990, Madeha al Ajroush and 46 other women did something revolutionary. The group dismissed their drivers and got behind the wheels of cars in downtown Riyadh. "We just drove the car," she told NPR years later. "It was exhilarating. It was great."
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Iraqi Forces Recapture Village South Of Mosul From ISIS: Report
Iraqi forces on Thursday regained control over Imam Gharbi, a village south of Mosul, from ISIS terrorists who had seized it as their defence of their stronghold in the city crumbled, Iraqi police said.
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ISIS Tightens Grip On Village Near Mosul After Defeat
ISIS has captured most of a village south of Mosul despite losing control of its stronghold in the city, an Iraqi army officer and residents said, deploying guerrilla-style tactics as its self-proclaimed caliphate crumbles.
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Facing Defeat In Mosul, ISIS Mounts Diversionary Attack To The South
ISIS terrorists attacked a village south of Mosul, killing several people including two journalists, even as they were about to lose their last redoubt in the city to an Iraqi military onslaught, security sources said on Friday.
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15 Killed In Terror Attack In Iraq, ISIS Claims Responsibility
Fifteen people were killed on Saturday when a group of ISIS terrorists attacked a village in Iraq's Salahudin province, a security official said.
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'Hoped We Would Be Killed, Not Raped': ISIS Slave, Now Free, Returns Home
Nadia Murad made an emotional return on Thursday to the Yazidi village in northern Iraq where she was captured and sold as a slave by ISIS three years ago.
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Blowing Up Houses, Digging Up Graves: Iraqis Purge ISIS
The mood was festive as seven men each carried a bomb into a house on the edge of a village in northern Iraq.
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Documents Show ISIS Obsessions: Beards And Concubines
After ISIS conquered villages in northern Iraq, it spelled out in minute detail the rules of its self-proclaimed caliphate, from beard length to alms to guidelines for taking women as sex slaves.
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'Using Cell Phone Could Be Instant Death': He Escaped From ISIS In Wheelchair
Abbas Ali wept as his wife slowly pushed him in his wheelchair out of their village in northern Iraq, a risky escape along a route where ISIS snipers three days earlier had shot dead a couple seeking freedom from their rule.
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11 Dead In Iraq Attack Blamed On ISIS: Report
At least 11 people were killed late Tuesday in an attack on a village in eastern Iraq blamed on the Islamic State group, security sources said.
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US Ally Declares Fall Of ISIS "Caliphate", Last Village Captured
ISIS has been defeated at its final shred of territory of Baghouz in Syria, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Saturday, announcing the end of its self-declared "caliphate" that once spanned a third of Iraq and Syria.
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ISIS Terrorists In Iraq Kill 5 Of A Family Who Fought Against The Group
ISIS group jihadists killed five members of the same family at a checkpoint on the edge of their village north of Baghdad early on Saturday, a police official said.
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Years After His Hanging, Mystery Over Saddam Hussein's Resting Place
In his native village of Al-Awjah, the mausoleum of Iraq's executed dictator Saddam Hussein has been reduced to broken concrete and tangled barbed wire, showing no trace of his remains.
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Mortal Remains Of Last Man, Among 39 Killed In Iraq, Consigned To Flames In Punjab
The mortal remains of one of the 39 Indians killed in ISIS captivity in Iraq were consigned to flames on Wednesday. Gurdeep Singh, whose last rites of were performed at his native village Jaitpur in Punjab, is survived by his mother Surinder Kaur, wife Anita Rani, a 5-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter.
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Liberation From ISIS Brought Relief. Then Came Flashes Of Revenge
The scene in Muneira, on the Tigris River in northern Iraq, offered a glimpse into the struggles of one Sunni Arab village in the year since the government drove the militants away: a place beset by suspicions, troubled by violence while coping, like much of the country, with death and loss.
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Here's How Women In Saudi Arabia Reacted To News That They'll Finally Be Allowed To Drive
In 1990, Madeha al Ajroush and 46 other women did something revolutionary. The group dismissed their drivers and got behind the wheels of cars in downtown Riyadh. "We just drove the car," she told NPR years later. "It was exhilarating. It was great."
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Iraqi Forces Recapture Village South Of Mosul From ISIS: Report
Iraqi forces on Thursday regained control over Imam Gharbi, a village south of Mosul, from ISIS terrorists who had seized it as their defence of their stronghold in the city crumbled, Iraqi police said.
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ISIS Tightens Grip On Village Near Mosul After Defeat
ISIS has captured most of a village south of Mosul despite losing control of its stronghold in the city, an Iraqi army officer and residents said, deploying guerrilla-style tactics as its self-proclaimed caliphate crumbles.
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Facing Defeat In Mosul, ISIS Mounts Diversionary Attack To The South
ISIS terrorists attacked a village south of Mosul, killing several people including two journalists, even as they were about to lose their last redoubt in the city to an Iraqi military onslaught, security sources said on Friday.
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15 Killed In Terror Attack In Iraq, ISIS Claims Responsibility
Fifteen people were killed on Saturday when a group of ISIS terrorists attacked a village in Iraq's Salahudin province, a security official said.
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'Hoped We Would Be Killed, Not Raped': ISIS Slave, Now Free, Returns Home
Nadia Murad made an emotional return on Thursday to the Yazidi village in northern Iraq where she was captured and sold as a slave by ISIS three years ago.
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Blowing Up Houses, Digging Up Graves: Iraqis Purge ISIS
The mood was festive as seven men each carried a bomb into a house on the edge of a village in northern Iraq.
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Documents Show ISIS Obsessions: Beards And Concubines
After ISIS conquered villages in northern Iraq, it spelled out in minute detail the rules of its self-proclaimed caliphate, from beard length to alms to guidelines for taking women as sex slaves.
-
'Using Cell Phone Could Be Instant Death': He Escaped From ISIS In Wheelchair
Abbas Ali wept as his wife slowly pushed him in his wheelchair out of their village in northern Iraq, a risky escape along a route where ISIS snipers three days earlier had shot dead a couple seeking freedom from their rule.
