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Fresh advance in east Mosul to begin within days - U.S. commander

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi forces will resume their push against Islamic State inside Mosul in the coming days, a U.S. battlefield commander said, in a new phase of the two-month-old operation that will see American troops deployed closer to the front line in the city.
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Publish Date:26/December/2016 | 15:04

Turkey Moves Arms to Syria Border, Seeks Trump’s Backing in War

EghtesadOnline: Turkey’s military deployed tanks and guns on the Syrian border as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged joint action with the Trump administration against Islamic State in its de facto capital, Raqqa.
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Publish Date:26/December/2016 | 14:47

Nigeria's Buhari says army has captured key Boko Haram camp

EghtesadOnline: Nigeria's army has captured a key Boko Haram camp, the Islamist militant group's last enclave in the vast northeastern Sambisa forest that was its stronghold, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Saturday.
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Publish Date:24/December/2016 | 14:50

Bombings Kill 14 Soldiers in Turkey’s Deadliest Day in Syria

EghtesadOnline: Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels besieged the Islamic State stronghold of Al-Bab in northern Syria after three separate suicide bombings left Turkey reeling from its bloodiest day on the Syrian front.
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Publish Date:22/December/2016 | 08:06

Car bombs in Iraq's Falluja kill eight people: police and medics

EghtesadOnline: Eight people were killed in two car bombings in the Iraqi city of Falluja west of Baghdad on Sunday, police and hospital sources said, and a news agency close to Islamic State said its militants carried out the attacks.
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Publish Date:11/December/2016 | 20:36

Syrian army advances in Aleppo but loses Palmyra to Islamic State

EghtesadOnline: The Syrian army and its allies made new gains in Aleppo on Sunday, forcing rebels back into an ever shrinking pocket crammed with civilians, but lost control of the desert city of Palmyra to a swift Islamic State attack.
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Publish Date:11/December/2016 | 20:15

U.S. estimates 50,000 Islamic State fighters killed so far: U.S. official

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. military believes that some 50,000 Islamic State fighters have been killed since the United States started battling the group more than two years ago, a senior U.S. military official said on Thursday, calling it a "conservative estimate."
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Publish Date:08/December/2016 | 21:16

Trump lays out non-interventionist U.S. military policy

EghtesadOnline: President-elect Donald Trump laid out a U.S. military policy on Tuesday that would avoid interventions in foreign conflicts and instead focus heavily on defeating the Islamic State militancy.
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Publish Date:07/December/2016 | 11:53

Iraqi army launches fresh assault toward Mosul center

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi army units surged toward the center of Mosul on Tuesday in an attack from the city's southeastern edges that could give fresh impetus to the seven-week-old battle for Islamic State's Iraqi stronghold.
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Publish Date:07/December/2016 | 10:36

ISIS Victim Suit Ties Twitter Ads to Terrorist Propaganda

EghtesadOnline: The family of a woman slain in the 2015 Paris attacks claims in a lawsuit that Twitter Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google profit from targeted advertising linked to terrorist propaganda promoting violence.
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Publish Date:04/December/2016 | 01:01

Islamic State Meets to Choose Leader’s Successor, SOHR Says

EghtesadOnline: The Islamic State summoned commanders and affiliate organizations to Iraq to choose a successor to their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, citing people it didn’t identify.
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Publish Date:04/December/2016 | 12:48

Mosul residents fear cold and hunger of winter siege

EghtesadOnline: No food or fuel has reached Mosul in nearly a week and the onset of rain and cold weather threatens a tough winter for more than a million people still in Islamic State-held areas of the city, residents said on Saturday.
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Publish Date:04/December/2016 | 12:06

Daesh has roots in Zionism, Wahhabism: Commander

EghtesadOnline: Daesh ( ISIS ) and its terrorist acts have roots in ideologies of Zionism, Wahhabism and arrogant powers to kill Muslims, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, top military advisor to the Iranian Leader, has said.
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Publish Date:28/November/2016 | 10:26

Pakistan PM Sharif names General Bajwa as new army chief

EghtesadOnline: Pakistan's prime minister on Saturday picked Lieutenant General Qamar Javed Bajwa to replace outgoing army chief Raheel Sharif, the popular military leader credited with improving security and driving back Islamist militant groups.
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Publish Date:26/November/2016 | 21:08