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Iraqi forces capture half of last Daesh redoubt in Tal Afar
Aug 30, 2017 13:54Iraqi government forces have regained full control over half of the last remaining redoubt of Daesh Takfiri militants in Tal Afar as they are joined by volunteer fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units in a multi-pronged operation to liberate the northern city from the extremists.
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Iran warns Iraq's Kirkuk decision to back Kurdish referendum provocative
Aug 30, 2017 13:42Iran says a decision by councilors in the Iraqi province of Kirkuk to take part in next month’s independence referendum is a “provocative, wrong and unacceptable mistake.”
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Syrian govt. forces, allies recapture five outposts on Jordan border
Aug 30, 2017 13:37Syrian government forces, backed by fighters from allied popular defense groups, have regained control of five outposts near the border with Jordan from Daesh Takfiri terrorists as they continue their counter-terrorism operations in the country’s southern province of Suwayda.
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Eight civilians killed in fresh US airstrikes on Syria’s Raqqah: Monitor
Aug 30, 2017 06:16Fresh air raids conducted by the US-led coalition have claimed the lives of eight civilians in Syria’s northern city of Raqqah, a UK-based monitoring group says.
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Daesh terrorists begin evacuating Syria-Lebanon border zone
Aug 28, 2017 12:14The Daesh Takfiri terrorists and their supporters have begun to evacuate Syria's strategic and mountainous region of Qalamoun close to the border with Lebanon, and head towards eastern part of the country as part of a negotiated deal to end the extremists’ presence there.
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Iraqi security forces find Daesh torture cells in western Tal Afar
Aug 28, 2017 12:02Iraqi security soldiers have discovered a detention facility in the western flank of Tal Afar, which members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group used to incarcerate people and subject the detainees to various forms of torture.
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Car bomb at busy Shia Muslim neighborhood kills 9 people in Baghdad
Aug 28, 2017 11:23A massive car bomb explosion has ripped through a busy market area in the eastern part of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least nine people and injuring more than two dozen others.
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Syria agrees to deal for Daesh terrorists to leave Western Qalamoun
Aug 27, 2017 14:30The Syrian government has agreed to a deal between the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement and Daesh Takfiri terrorists, which allows the transfer of the latter from the strategic and mountainous region of Qalamoun close to the border with Lebanon to eastern Syria.
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Iraq says battle to retake Tal Afar from Daesh nearly won
Aug 27, 2017 14:22Iraqi army soldiers and allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units have dislodged the Daesh Takfiri militants from almost all neighborhoods of Tal Afar and its surrounding areas after an eight-day offensive to drive out the extremists from the northern city.
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With Daesh on last legs, car bombs hit Baghdad
Aug 27, 2017 10:29Explosives loaded onto vehicles go off in two different locations across the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, killing five people and injuring eight others.