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9,000-plus died in battle with Islamic State for Mosul
Associated Press, Published on 20/12/2017
» MOSUL, Iraq: The price Mosul's residents paid in blood to see their city freed was between 9,000 and 11,000 dead, a civilian casualty rate nearly 10 times higher than what has been previously reported. The number killed in the 9-month battle to liberate the city from the Islamic State marauders has not been acknowledged by the US-led coalition, the Iraqi government or the self-styled caliphate.
The rise and fall of the Islamic State group
Associated Press, Published on 17/10/2017
» BEIRUT: The Islamic State group, responsible for some of the worst atrocities perpetrated against civilians in recent history, appears on the verge of collapse.
IS dream turns to nightmare for Indonesian family
Associated Press, Published on 03/08/2017
» AIN ISSA, Syria -- The 17-year old Indonesian girl made a persuasive case to her family: lured by what she had read online, she told her parents, sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins they should all move to Syria to join the Islamic State group.
IS 'global jihadis' here to stay
Associated Press, Published on 12/07/2017
» The Islamic State group's mix of a local insurgency and digitally connected global jihadis gives the group staying power and the means to relaunch its future, from small cells of extremists escaping the war zone in Iraq and Syria to those who never went there in the first place.
Chemical weapons attack latest in litany of Syria atrocities
Associated Press, Published on 11/04/2017
» BEIRUT - With its missile strike on Shayrat air base in central Syria, Washington signalled that it had judged President Bashar Assad responsible for the horrific chemical weapons attack in northern Syria that drew international outrage last week.