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Owen Holdaway

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INTERVIEW ON THE LIBERATION OF TAL-AFAR

An interview on France24 on the announcement by the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi of the liberation of Tal-afar from the so-called Islamic State https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_RzIYrNdEE&t=12s

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INTERVIEW ON THE LIBERATION OF TAL-AFAR

An interview on i-24news Daily Dose on the announced by the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi of the liberation of the town of Tal-afar from the so-called Islamic State: https://www.i24news.tv/en/tv/replay/daily-dose/x5z21xz

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THE UPCOMING BATTLE FOR HAWIJA

An article for the SUN on the upcoming battle for ISIS last major stronghold in Iraq Hawija: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4376154/inside-the-battle-for-isiss-last-major-iraqi-stronghold-where-troops-face-fight-to-the-death-against-2000-bloodthirsty-jihadis/

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AN ARTICLE ON THE RETAKING OF AL-NURI MOSQUE

An article for http://www.9news.com.au from Al-Nuri Mosque – where the ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi declared the Caliphate – immediately after the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Forces [ICTF] recaptured the area: http://www.9news.com.au/world/2017/07/01/10/35/mosul-liberation-al-nuri-mosque

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AN ARTICLE OF BEING AN ISIS SNIPER BULLET BEING DEFLECTED BY A GOPRO IN WEST MOSUL

An article on the dramatic moment ISIS sniper’s bullet bounces off Iraqi cameraman’s GoPro – as Sun man films miracle escape just inches away https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3573603/sun-reporter-sniper-bullet-mosul-iraq/

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POV VISION OF INTENSE CLASHES AGAINST ISIS INSIDE WESTERN MOSUL

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AlEdgLDp0U[/embedyt] POV [point of view] vision of the battle for the ‘old quarter’ of Western Mosul with the elite “Swat” unit of the Federal Police. The GoPro footage show running past various ISIS sniper position to the Federal Police’s […]

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MOMENT ISIS MORTAR LANDS WITHIN A FEW FEET, BUT FAILS TO EXPLODE

Dramatic video footage of the moment an ISIS’s mortar round lands just feet from me in west Mosul, but fails to explode: [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li-qSbLvQEs[/embedyt]

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ARTICLE UNDER SNIPER FIRE INSIDE MOSUL

A Sun article on the offensive in the Western quarter of Mosul, just after they took the airport: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2968493/how-isis-barbarians-are-unleashing-snipers-armed-drones-and-poison-gas-car-bombs-in-fierce-final-defence-of-mosul/

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ARTICLE ON TAL-AFAR AND THE FIGHT AGAINST ISIS IN THE WEST

An article with the Hashd-Al-Shaabi on the fight against ISIS west of Mosul near the town of Tal-afar: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2860099/as-isis-faces-oblivion-in-terror-stronghold-mosul-meet-the-fighters-blitzing-the-fleeing-fanatics-by-blocking-off-their-escape-routes/

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FIRST DRONE FOOTAGE INSIDE MOSUL

The first journalist aerial footage taken inside Mosul since the operation to liberate the city from the so called Islamic state. Vision is of Al-Bakr district in eastern quarter and taken with the express permission of Najaf Iraqi special forces […]

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