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Iraqis Hunt For Their Cars In Devastated Post-IS Mosul

Saliha Sultan searches in vain for the family car among mounds of charred car skeletons and mangled trucks blocking...

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Russia ‘may Have Killed IS Head Baghdadi’

Russia's defence ministry is investigating whether one of its air strikes in Syria killed the leader of the Islamic...

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Girl Chronicles Aleppo Terror In ‘Myriam’s Diary’

Her childhood shattered by "grown-up stuff", Myriam Rawick was only eight years old when she began recording her...

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Girl Chronicles Aleppo Terror In ‘Myriam’s Diary’

Her childhood shattered by "grown-up stuff", Myriam Rawick was only eight years old when she began recording her...

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Garbage Dumped In Sea Off Lebanon Sparks Outrage

A "mountain of garbage" dumped at sea off Beirut under a deal between the government and a company has sparked outrage...

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IS Chemical Attacks Down In Syria

The Islamic State group is launching fewer chemical weapons attacks in Syria as their Iraqi stronghold in Mosul, where...

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Terrified Civilians Hide From Gunfire In Mosul Pre-School

The bullets of jihadists rain down outside the Mosul kindergarten, where dozens of terrified Iraqi civilians are...

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Hundreds Sick, Two Dead In Food Poisoning At Mosul Displaced Camp

A mass food poisoning at a camp for displaced Iraqi civilians outside Mosul has left at least two dead and hundreds...

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Iraqi Girl Reunited With Family 3 Years After IS Abduction

The Ashti camp in Iraq's northern city of Arbil on Saturday celebrated the return of a girl whose abduction by...

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Iraq On Cusp of Mosul Victory Three Years After Major Defeat

Three years after the Islamic State group routed them in Mosul, Iraqi forces are now on the cusp of retaking the city...

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Weapons Choice In Anti-IS War Endangers Civilians

The choice of weapons by the Iraqi security forces and its allies from the US-led coalition is endangering the lives of...

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Syrian Army Pushes Into Raqa Province

Syria's army advanced into Raqa province Tuesday, a monitor and a military source said, on the same day US-backed...

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UN Accuses IS of Executing 163 Civilians In Mosul On June 1

The United Nations human rights chief on Tuesday accused the Islamic State group of murdering 163 civilians to prevent...

News

Of A Lynched Soldier, Oba Chandler & the Rogers!

At the Reception Hall at 3FM, TV3’s radio station, in Accra, were two security men on duty that very night. They sat...

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Up To 100,000 Children At Risk In Iraq’s Mosul

Up to 100,000 children are in danger as Iraqi forces battle to retake west Mosul from the Islamic State jihadist group,...

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Looters Target Empty Homes In Iraq’s Mosul

Men, women and children walk down a main road in west Mosul with arms full and carts loaded, but they are not among the...

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Jihadists Occupy Civilian Homes As Mosul Battle Rages

After jihadists turned the roof of his house into a sniper position, Owayid Mohammed and his family fled west Mosul in...

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Syria Army Takes Aleppo Town From IS

Syria's army Sunday seized a key town from the Islamic State group in the east of Aleppo province, a military source...

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Iraq Forces Announce Gains In West Mosul

Iraqi forces have recaptured around half of two neighbourhoods in west Mosul that are among the targets of a broad...