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Owen Holdaway

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Article on children of Mosul being killed by ISIS car bombs and maimed by sniper fire

Article for the Sun on the children of western Mosul: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3190201/isis-car-bomb-sniper-mosul-killing-kids/

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A sniper attack in west Mosul

A sniper attack in west Mosul while embedded with the Iraqi Special Operation Forces: ISIS bullets whizz past Sun reporter on the ground in Mosul as snipers target journalists

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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 ON A MORTAR ATTACK ON ME INSIDE MOSUL

Terrifying moment ISIS mortar round lands just feet from Sun reporter in the thick of the battle to blast terror fanatics out of Mosul: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3106237/isis-mortar-mosul-sun-reporter-battle/

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ARTICLE WHILE EMBEDDED WITH THE FEDERAL POLICE INSIDE WEST MOSUL

Inside the battle for Mosul where Iraqi troops face ISIS suicide bombers and snipers in bloody battle to liberate terror stronghold https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3058853/inside-the-battle-for-mosul-where-elite-iraqi-troops-face-isis-suicide-bombers-and-snipers-in-brutal-fight-to-the-death-as-they-battle-to-liberate-terror-stronghold/

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ARTICLE ON THE KHASFA MASSIVE GRAVE JUST OUTSIDE MOSUL

A SUN article on a mass killing site, Khasfa sinkhole, in between the town of Hammam Al-Alil and West Mosul: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2967802/chilling-images-reveal-inside-biggest-mass-grave-in-iraq-where-isis-buried-bodies-of-thousands-of-enemies-in-400m-deep-sinkhole/

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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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VIDEO OF JOINING AN IRAQI ARMY RAID ON FORMER ISIS HOTEL INSIDE MOSUL

A video of a clearance raid on the Nineveh international hotel near the Tigris river inside Mosul with the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Forces [ICTF]. https://www.thesun.co.uk/video/news/dramatic-anti-isis-raid-as-iraqi-forces-liberate-eastern-mosul/

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RADIO INTERVIEW ON IRAQI REACTION TO TRUMP’S WIN

A radio interview on CBS on the operation on Iraqis reaction to Donald Trump winning the US Presidential Election: [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87qEn-F-BMk[/embedyt]    

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