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Owen Holdaway

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20 YEARS ON SINCE THE FALL OF SADDAM HUSSEIN

A TV report from Mosul in northern Iraq on the 20-year anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq:

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Embedded with Ukrainian forces in Donetsk

A TV package on the 93rd Ukrainian Mechanised Division in Donetsk

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REPORTS FROM IPRIN AS THE RUSSIAN SURROUND THE CAPITAL KYIV

Various reports from the suburbs of Irpin and north of Kyiv shortly after Russian forces attempt to retake the capital

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Syria’s Bid To Populate War-Ravaged Country

An article for Media Line on the sectarian issues and problems facing Syria post-war: http://www.themedialine.org/news/syrias-bid-to-populate-war-ravaged-country-with-shiites-unrealistic/

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Inside the house-by-house hunt for ISIS terror chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

An article for the SUN on the hunt for the leader of ISIS, Al-Baghdadi in eastern Syria: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7740520/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-search-syria-hajin/

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How ISIS’ most extreme and violent guerrilla terrorists are fighting to the death to cling onto last major pocket

Article for the SUN newspaper on ISIS’s last major urban stronghold, Hajin that they control in Syria: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7759469/isis-al-hasakah-syria-last-battle-sdf-fighting/

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AN ON CAMERA INTERVIEW WITH A FOREIGN ISIS FIGHTER

A tense video interview with a Swizz born citizen and ISIS fighter, who joined back in 2015 and was a member of the terrorist organization till 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTB4FnKGtmg

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ARTICLE ON ISIS LAST URBAN STRONGHOLD IN SYRIA

An article for Media line about the last major urban center ISIS still control in Syria, Hajin: http://www.themedialine.org/news/syria-roots-out-isis-from-border-region-with-israel/

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ARTICLE ON ISIS SLEEPER CELLS STILL OPERATING IN SYRIA

An article for the SUN online on ISIS sleeper cells still operating in Syria, even after the fall of their de facto capital, Raqqa to the US back coalition forces: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6906151/isis-death-cult-is-still-plaguing-syrian-cities-at-night-with-sleeper-cells-hiding-in-the-day-only-to-launch-attacks-in-the-dark/    

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AN ARTICLE ON ISIS’S MASS BURIAL SITE IN RAQQA

An article for the SUN online on the burial sites in Syria could belong to the victims of murderous ISIS executioner Jihadi John: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6853624/inside-the-hunt-for-jihadi-johns-victims-at-the-bloodsoaked-graves-of-isis-beheading-victims/

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