Freelance Journalist

Owen Holdaway

Home / war

ARTICLE ON ISIS PLANNING CHEMICAL ATTACK NEAR BADUSH IN IRAQ

An article for the SUN newspaper on a potential chemical attack in Badush and the killing of civilians by ISIS in Northern Iraq: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3536839/isis-planning-deadly-gas-attacks-claims-iraqi-medic/

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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/

Read More

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

Read More

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]

Read More

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/

Read More

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/

Read More

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/

Read More

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/

Read More

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/

Read More