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Iraqi Forces Seize Village In One Of Last ISIS Bastions
Iraqi security forces and paramilitary units on Tuesday seized a village in one of the last pockets of territory controlled by the ISIS group in the vast western province of Anbar, bordering Syria.
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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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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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ISIS Is Now Deploying Tanks Made Of Wood
As they battle to hold on to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Islamic State militants have added a new weapon to their arsenal: tanks made of wood.
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Islamic State Tunnels Below Mosul Are A Hidden And Deadly Danger
"They're everywhere," said the Iraqi intelligence officer, sweeping his arm from this ancient Christian village toward the horizon. The Iraqi captain was searching for tunnels dug by Islamic State fighters.
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Tribal Militia Torturing Detainees In Mosul Offensive: Amnesty
Men and boys from Iraqi villages recaptured from the ISIS group in the operation to retake Mosul have been unlawfully detained, tortured and ill-treated by tribal militia, Amnesty International said Thursday.
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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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ISIS Driving Hundreds Into Mosul, Using Them As Human Shields
ISIS terrorists have been going door to door in villages south of Mosul, ordering people at gunpoint on a mileslong trek into the city and using them as human shields as the extremists prepare to defend it from Iraqi forces, according to residents swept up in the forced evacuations.
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Iraqi Villager Lives To Avenge Hostages Killed By ISIS
Sitting on a broken chair at a school where hundreds of families who fled ISIS are seeking refuge south of Mosul, Younis Ali describes how he lost his four brothers and five sisters.
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ISIS Seizes 550 Families As Human Shields In Mosul: UN
ISIS fighters have taken 550 families from villages around Mosul and are holding them close to Islamic State (ISIL) locations in the Iraqi city, probably as human shields, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday.
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ISIS Said To Use Mosul Residents As Human Shields As Coalition Closes In
Residents of Mosul said ISIS was using civilians as human shields as Iraqi and Kurdish forces captured outlying villages in their advance on the terrorists' stronghold.
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ISIS Captures Up To 3,000 Fleeing Iraqis: Report
ISIS fighters may have captured up to 3,000 fleeing Iraqi villagers on Thursday and subsequently executed 12 of them, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said in a daily report on events in Iraq.
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A Yazidi Woman Shares Her Story Of Terror At The Hands Of The Islamic State
On Aug. 15, 2014, Islamic State fighters who had surrounded her small Iraqi town for days ordered Nadia Murad and other Yazidis to walk to the local school, where men were to head upstairs, women downstairs. A sight along the way terrified the 20-year-old even more: backhoes at work. She'd seen videos of Islamic State fighters filling mass graves. ...
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Iraqi Forces Seize Village In One Of Last ISIS Bastions
Iraqi security forces and paramilitary units on Tuesday seized a village in one of the last pockets of territory controlled by the ISIS group in the vast western province of Anbar, bordering Syria.
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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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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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ISIS Is Now Deploying Tanks Made Of Wood
As they battle to hold on to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Islamic State militants have added a new weapon to their arsenal: tanks made of wood.
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Islamic State Tunnels Below Mosul Are A Hidden And Deadly Danger
"They're everywhere," said the Iraqi intelligence officer, sweeping his arm from this ancient Christian village toward the horizon. The Iraqi captain was searching for tunnels dug by Islamic State fighters.
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Tribal Militia Torturing Detainees In Mosul Offensive: Amnesty
Men and boys from Iraqi villages recaptured from the ISIS group in the operation to retake Mosul have been unlawfully detained, tortured and ill-treated by tribal militia, Amnesty International said Thursday.
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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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ISIS Driving Hundreds Into Mosul, Using Them As Human Shields
ISIS terrorists have been going door to door in villages south of Mosul, ordering people at gunpoint on a mileslong trek into the city and using them as human shields as the extremists prepare to defend it from Iraqi forces, according to residents swept up in the forced evacuations.
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Iraqi Villager Lives To Avenge Hostages Killed By ISIS
Sitting on a broken chair at a school where hundreds of families who fled ISIS are seeking refuge south of Mosul, Younis Ali describes how he lost his four brothers and five sisters.
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ISIS Seizes 550 Families As Human Shields In Mosul: UN
ISIS fighters have taken 550 families from villages around Mosul and are holding them close to Islamic State (ISIL) locations in the Iraqi city, probably as human shields, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday.
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ISIS Said To Use Mosul Residents As Human Shields As Coalition Closes In
Residents of Mosul said ISIS was using civilians as human shields as Iraqi and Kurdish forces captured outlying villages in their advance on the terrorists' stronghold.
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ISIS Captures Up To 3,000 Fleeing Iraqis: Report
ISIS fighters may have captured up to 3,000 fleeing Iraqi villagers on Thursday and subsequently executed 12 of them, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said in a daily report on events in Iraq.
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A Yazidi Woman Shares Her Story Of Terror At The Hands Of The Islamic State
On Aug. 15, 2014, Islamic State fighters who had surrounded her small Iraqi town for days ordered Nadia Murad and other Yazidis to walk to the local school, where men were to head upstairs, women downstairs. A sight along the way terrified the 20-year-old even more: backhoes at work. She'd seen videos of Islamic State fighters filling mass graves. ...
