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Fighting continues in Iraq's second city
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST:AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Mosul - 6 January 20171. Helicopter firing flares over Mosul2. Smoke rising from an explosion3. Various of Iraqi soldiers firing rounds4. Iraqi soldiers...
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CLEAN : Israeli forces destroy mourning tent for Palestinian assailant
Israeli security forces destroyed Monday a tent in east Jerusalem's neighbourhood of Jabal Mukaber used by relatives and friends to mourn Fadi al Qunbar a Palestinian who rammed a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers visiting a popular...
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Analyst: difficult battle for western Mosul
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYIrbil - 18 January 20171. Various of Iraqi security analyst, retired Brig. Gen. Ahmed Shawqi 2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Brig. Gen. (ret.) Ahmed Shawqi, security...
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Budapest council to vote on revoking Olympic bid
The Budapest city assembly will vote on Wednesday on a motion to withdraw the city's bid to host the 2024 Olympics.Mayor Istvan Tarlos, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and Zsolt Borkai, the head of the Hungarian Olympic Committee, agreed...
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Head of Syria opposition team on Geneva talks
A leading Syrian opposition official hopes to persuade the new US administration that rebels fighting to topple Bashar al-Assad share the same priorities as Washington when it comes to fighting the Islamic State group and containing...
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Tillerson, Turkish leaders struggle on Kurds dispute
The United States and Turkey struggled Thursday to resolve a deep dispute over the Kurdish role in the fight against the Islamic State group, but appeared no closer to a resolution as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wrapped up his...
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CLEAN : NATO members must raise game on burden sharing: UK's Fallon
NATO members must raise their game for fairer burden sharing British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon says during a press conference in London with his US counterpart James Mattis which also focused on Russia Syria and the EU
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CLEAN : Iraqi artist secretly chronicled IS brutality
Mustafa al Tha i worked in secret at night using his brushes and pencils to record the violence he saw during the day under the Islamic State groups brutal reign in Iraq
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Street artist covers IS murals in Mosul with positive messages
LEADINA street artist in Mosul is repainting murals left by the Islamic State group with positive messages.Murals were one of the methods the militant group used to spread fear during the two and half years it controlled parts of the...
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Lebanon analyst on Qatar crisis
A Beirut-based analyst said on Wednesday that the administration of US President Donald Trump could be the key mediator in the Gulf crisis.George Alam said the US could help bridge the differences between Saudi Arabia and other nations,...
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Major Baghdad to Mosul route reopens
IRAQ MOSUL PASSENGERSSOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESSRESTRICTIONS: AP CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 2:25SHOTLIST:ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLYBaghdad, Iraq - 21 June 20171. Various of Alawi garage in central Baghdad2. Various of a taxi driver calling...
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CLEAN : Desperate Syrian family hopes to reunite after fleeing Raqa
In four years Mohammad al-Hassan only heard his son's voice once: when the young Syrian soldier called a radio show to send regards to his family trapped in jihadist bastion Raqa
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Iraq forces re-take Mosul's main hospital
Iraqi forces were seen amongst the battered remains of Mosul's main hospital on Tuesday, after re-taking the complex from Islamic State group militants the day before.The fight for the hospital complex - home to a number of tall...
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What now for the Shiite militias?
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In the wake of victory against the Islamic State group in Mosul, Iraq's political, religious and military leaders are debating the future of the country's powerful Shiite militias - the tens of thousands of men who...
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Protest at court hearing of detained journalists
Supporters of imprisoned journalists and staff from the Cumhuriyet newspaper gathered outside an Istanbul court on Friday to call for their release.
Hearings have been held every day since Monday to decide whether the...
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Coalition officials meet Raqqa civil council
The deputy commander of the international coalition supporting the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in their battle to retake Raqqa from the Islamic State group (IS) visited the city on Sunday and met officials from the interim...
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Tensions over Kurdish referendum affecting battle against IS in Iraq
US-led coalition spokesman in Iraq Colonel Ryan Dillon said on Thursday that the Kurdish referendum had pulled "efforts and focus" away from the fight against the Islamic State group.
Dillon was speaking in Baghdad during a...
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Customers in Irbil tea house mull Kurdish independence vote
As Iraq's Kurdish region prepared to vote on whether to secede from Iraq, customers at a tea house in Irbil contemplated a possible future Kurdish state.
In 'Mam Khalil Tea House' in central Irbil, the walls are decorated...
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Iraqi Christian town mulls future ahead of Kurdish referendum
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Residents of an Iraqi Christian town are weighing up how to vote at the upcoming independence referendum in the country's northern Kurdish region.
They will go to the polls 25 September.
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CLEAN : On Syria's Raqa front anti IS fighters long for their loves
The melancholy ballad sung by anti jihadist fighter Nimer echoes through the makeshift outpost in Syria's Raqa
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ONLY ON AP Haider al-Abadi on German teen held by Iraq, latest ops against IS
Iraq's prime minister said on Saturday that a teenage German girl found in Mosul last month who ran away from home after communicating with Islamic State group extremists online was still being held in a Baghdad prison.
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CLEAN : Long term truants make nervy school return in Iraq's Mosul
After three years of forced truancy due to the Islamic State group's seizure of the Iraqi city of Mosul teenager Ali Salem waited nervously outside school to sit an English exam
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Senior MP says US used IS as a tool
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A Syrian lawmaker says that the capture of Raqqa, the former de-facto capital of the Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate, is not a "liberation" and will not last.
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CLEAN : In Syria student dreams shattered by war
They once dreamt of becoming engineers teachers or other professionals but for tens of thousands of Syrian students those hopes were cut short by the war in their homeland