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Islamic State claims suicide attacks as Mosul campaign makes slow progress

EghtesadOnline: Islamic State claimed a series of suicide attacks that killed at least 14 people south and west of Baghdad on Monday as a U.S.-backed campaign to capture Mosul, the insurgents' last urban stronghold in Iraq, made slow progress.

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Publish Date:15/November/2016 | 06:07

Turkish warplanes strike 15 targets in Syria's al Bab area: military

EghtesadOnline: Turkish warplanes struck 15 targets in the al Bab area of northern Syria on Sunday in an operation with Syrian rebels to drive Islamic State militants out of the region, the Turkish military said on Monday.

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Publish Date:14/November/2016 | 06:04

Iraq troops aim to tighten noose on Islamic State in Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi soldiers fighting just north of Mosul, within sight of city neighborhoods, said on Sunday they were ready to tighten the noose around Islamic State militants waging a brutal defense of their Iraqi stronghold.

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Publish Date:14/November/2016 | 05:42

Zarif consults with Iraq former VP on campaign against Daesh terrorists

EghtesadOnline: Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in meeting with Iraq former Vice-President Khazir al-Khazaei on Sunday reviewed the latest political developments in Iraq and campaign against Daesh.

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Publish Date:13/November/2016 | 16:45

Iraqi army says advances in Mosul, despite suicide bombers

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi special forces backed by U.S. and Iraqi air power took control of two districts of eastern Mosul on Saturday after heavy fighting in which they destroyed at least 10 cars deployed by Islamic State as suicide bombs, the military said.

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Publish Date:13/November/2016 | 04:59

Iraqi Kurdish Forces Advance East of Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi Kurdish fighters exchanged heavy fire with IS militants early on Monday as they advanced from two directions on a town held by the Islamic State group east of the city of Mosul.

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Publish Date:07/November/2016 | 11:08

U.S.-backed Syrian alliance declares attack on Islamic State in Raqqa

EghtesadOnline: A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian armed groups has launched an operation to retake the northern city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of Islamic State in Syria, the group said on Sunday.

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Publish Date:07/November/2016 | 05:00

Iraqi Forces Say Defenses, Civilians Hamper Mosul Advance

EghtesadOnline: Iraq's special forces struggled Sunday to clear areas retaken from the Islamic State group along Mosul's eastern edge, where the extremists have built up fortifications and ramparts in residential neighborhoods.

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Publish Date:06/November/2016 | 09:06

Islamic State Leader Rallies Fighters in Mosul

EghtesadOnline: The shadowy leader of the Islamic State group has released a new message urging his followers to keep up the fight for Mosul as they defend the city against a major offensive aimed at routing the militants from their last urban stronghold in Iraq.

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Publish Date:05/November/2016 | 05:53

Mosul under Islamic State: hardship, terror and swift 'justice'

EghtesadOnline: Whenever members of Islamic State's Mosul vice squad find a woman without gloves, they pull out a pair of pliers.

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Publish Date:03/November/2016 | 04:28

Iraqi forces advance on town where Islamic State accused of executions

EghtesadOnline: U.S.-backed Iraqi forces moved closer on Wednesday to a town south of Mosul where aid groups and regional officials say Islamic State has executed dozens of prisoners.

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Publish Date:03/November/2016 | 04:26

Documents show Islamic State obsessions: beards and concubines

EghtesadOnline: After Islamic State conquered villages in northern Iraq, it spelled out in minute detail the rules of its self-proclaimed caliphate, from beard length to alms to guidelines for taking women as sex slaves.

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Publish Date:02/November/2016 | 05:35

Russia says resumption of Syria peace talks delayed indefinitely

EghtesadOnline: Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday a Western failure to rein in violent Islamists in Syria had indefinitely delayed the resumption of peace talks.

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Publish Date:01/November/2016 | 11:50

Iraqi in wheelchair makes risky escape from Islamic State

EghtesadOnline: Abbas Ali wept as his wife slowly pushed him in his wheelchair out of their village in northern Iraq, a risky escape along a route where Islamic State snipers three days earlier had shot dead a couple seeking freedom from their rule.

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Publish Date:31/October/2016 | 18:29

Minister: Iran on frontline of fight against Daesh

EghtesadOnline: Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi said on Sunday that Iran has been on the frontline of fight against terrorist group of Daesh.

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Publish Date:31/October/2016 | 06:19

Iraqi police battle suicide bombers, get glimpse of life under IS

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi federal policemen stood over the corpse of an Islamic State suicide bomber covered by a curtain. The chain attached to his ankle was tied to a car that had dragged him through streets, they said, that were once part of a self-proclaimed jihadist caliphate.

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Publish Date:31/October/2016 | 04:44

In charred church near Mosul, Iraqi Christians pray once more

EghtesadOnline: Surrounded by charred walls and in front of a ruined altar, dozens of Iraqi Christians celebrated mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh on Sunday for the first time since it was recaptured from Islamic State.

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Publish Date:31/October/2016 | 04:26

Iraqi Shi'ite commander says Mosul battle 'no picnic' as troops advance

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi troops and security forces edged closer to Mosul on two southern fronts on Sunday but a leader of the Shi'ite militias newly participating in the offensive warned that the battle for Islamic State's Iraq stronghold would be long and grueling.

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Publish Date:30/October/2016 | 17:58

Iraqi Army Targets Site of IS Executions in Mosul

EghtesadOnline: The Iraqi Army was trying on Thursday to reach a town south of Mosul where the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group has reportedly executed dozens to deter the population against any attempt to support the US-led offensive in the last major city stronghold of IS in Iraq.

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Publish Date:29/October/2016 | 15:47

Iran-backed Shi'ite militias to join assault near Mosul on new front

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi Shi'ite militias backed by Iran said on Friday they would soon join the fight against Islamic State on a new front west of Mosul, a move which could block any retreat by the jihadists into Syria but might alarm Turkey and the United States.

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Publish Date:29/October/2016 | 05:18