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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

Kurds, Shi'ite fighters to coordinate after sealing off Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi Kurdish and Shi'ite forces agreed to coordinate movements after cutting off Mosul from the rest of the territory held by Islamic State in western Iraq and Syria in support of a U.S-backed offensive to capture the city, U.S. and Iraqi officials said on Thursday.
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Publish Date:24/November/2016 | 15:22

Iraqi forces yet to seal off Mosul as battle enters second month

EghtesadOnline: The U.S.-backed offensive to crush Islamic State in its last major city stronghold in Iraq entered a second month on Thursday as forces arrayed against the hardline Sunni group sought finally to seal off Mosul from all sides.
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Publish Date:17/November/2016 | 15:47

Watchdog condemns Syrian government, IS use of banned chemical weapons

EghtesadOnline: The executive body of the global chemical weapons watchdog voted on Friday to condemn the use of banned toxic agents by the Syrian government and by the militant group Islamic State, a source who took part in the closed session said.
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Publish Date:12/November/2016 | 06:14

Iraqi special forces seize Mosul district in fresh push

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi special forces said they pushed deeper into Mosul on Friday despite heavy resistance from Islamic State militants using civilians as cover, and were holding half a dozen city neighborhoods seized in the last 10 days.
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Publish Date:12/November/2016 | 05:58

'Crashing waves' of jihadists fray soldiers' nerves in Mosul battle

EghtesadOnline: A week after his tank division punched through Islamic State defenses on the southeast edge of Mosul, an Iraqi army colonel says the fight to drive the militants out of their urban stronghold is turning into a nightmare.
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Publish Date:10/November/2016 | 07:49

Iran calls Daesh the US secret army

EghtesadOnline: Top Military Aide to the Iranian Supreme Leader Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi said Daesh is the US secret army.
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Publish Date:08/November/2016 | 09:19

Iraq peshmerga storm Islamic State town as army battles in Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces stormed an Islamic State-held town northeast of Mosul on Monday, clearing a pocket of militants outside the city while Iraqi troops wage a fierce urban war with the jihadists in its eastern neighborhoods.
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Publish Date:08/November/2016 | 08:43

Islamic State brutality comes to light after military advance

EghtesadOnline: From behind the curtains of his bedroom window, 29-year-old Riyad Ahmed would peer out at Islamic State fighters dragging civilians into a makeshift jail across the street and then sending them in the middle of the night to be executed.
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Publish Date:08/November/2016 | 07:30