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Owen Holdaway

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ARTICLE ON REFUGEES FLEEING NORTH AFRICA TO SOUTHERN EUROPE

A story on refugees fleeing Tunisia and neighboring Libya via boats to Southern Italy. https://themedialine.org/top-stories/escaping-tunisia/

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An article for the SUN on a child buried under the rubble 1 month after the port explosion in Bierut

BURIED ALIVE: Race against time to reach ‘small child’ buried in rubble of Beirut blast for a MONTH after rescuers detect ‘heartbeat’ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12576427/beirut-blast-survivor-rubble-heartbeat/

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FIRST PERSON ACCOUNT ON COVERING THE BIERUT EXPLOSION

An article for the SUN newspaper on covering the Beirut explosion: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12330757/brit-journalist-bloodsoaked-mayhe-beirut-blast/

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Syria’s Bid To Populate War-Ravaged Country

An article for Media Line on the sectarian issues and problems facing Syria post-war: http://www.themedialine.org/news/syrias-bid-to-populate-war-ravaged-country-with-shiites-unrealistic/

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Inside the house-by-house hunt for ISIS terror chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

An article for the SUN on the hunt for the leader of ISIS, Al-Baghdadi in eastern Syria: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7740520/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-search-syria-hajin/

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How ISIS’ most extreme and violent guerrilla terrorists are fighting to the death to cling onto last major pocket

Article for the SUN newspaper on ISIS’s last major urban stronghold, Hajin that they control in Syria: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7759469/isis-al-hasakah-syria-last-battle-sdf-fighting/

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ARTICLE ON ISIS LAST URBAN STRONGHOLD IN SYRIA

An article for Media line about the last major urban center ISIS still control in Syria, Hajin: http://www.themedialine.org/news/syria-roots-out-isis-from-border-region-with-israel/

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ARTICLE ON ISIS SLEEPER CELLS STILL OPERATING IN SYRIA

An article for the SUN online on ISIS sleeper cells still operating in Syria, even after the fall of their de facto capital, Raqqa to the US back coalition forces: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6906151/isis-death-cult-is-still-plaguing-syrian-cities-at-night-with-sleeper-cells-hiding-in-the-day-only-to-launch-attacks-in-the-dark/    

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AN ARTICLE ON ISIS’S MASS BURIAL SITE IN RAQQA

An article for the SUN online on the burial sites in Syria could belong to the victims of murderous ISIS executioner Jihadi John: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6853624/inside-the-hunt-for-jihadi-johns-victims-at-the-bloodsoaked-graves-of-isis-beheading-victims/

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AN ARTICLE ON THE PLACE WHERE JIHADI JOHN WAS KILLED BY US DRONE STRIKE

An article for the SUN online on the exact location where the British ISIS front-man, dubbed Jihadi John was killed in Raqqa: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6820577/tour-of-jihadi-john-death-internet-cafe-bedouin-raqqa/

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