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Battle for Mosul : Blood, Dirt, Bombs – and a Generation of Children World

Battle for Mosul : Blood, Dirt, Bombs – and a Generation of Children

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Sunday, November 06, 2016

The oil-rich town of Qayyara, about 60km south of Mosul, was retaken in August from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), whose figh…

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Desperate families flee into war-torn Syria to escape Mosul fighting World

Desperate families flee into war-torn Syria to escape Mosul fighting

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Wednesday, November 02, 2016

Thousands of desperate Iraqis are fleeing to a filthy and overcrowded Syrian refugee camp in an effort to escape the Mosul offensive, according…

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Escape from Islamic State in Iraq World

Escape from Islamic State in Iraq

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Tuesday, November 01, 2016

People escape from a village in Iraq along a route where Islamic State snipers three days earlier had shot dead a couple seeking freedom from …

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UN report : 90,000 more Iraqis displaced by war since June alone World

UN report : 90,000 more Iraqis displaced by war since June alone

KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ Thursday, October 20, 2016

In a stifling hot office with more flies than oxygen, Rzgar Abed does not hesitate when asked about the biggest challenge in managing the camp …

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