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Owen Holdaway

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INSIDE THE LUXURY SYRIAN HOTEL THAT ISIS TURNED INTO HELLHOLE JAIL

An article for the SUN newspaper on a hotel turned ISIS prison in Manbij Northern Syria: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5810065/isis-prison-syria-manbij-hotel-torture/

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INSIDE HELLHOLE ISIS ‘TORTURE CAMP’ BENEATH FORMER FOOTBALL STADIUM

An article for the SUN newspaper on the football stadium in Raqqa that ISIS used as it’s HQ and as a torture prison: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5704058/isis-torture-camp-raqqa-football-stadium/

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LONDONER TALKS ABOUT DEATH OF FELLOW BRIT IN SYRIA

An article for the SUN newspaper on the death of first British woman in Syria: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5955687/anna-campbell-death-fighting-isis-syria-fellow-fighter-tribute/

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ISIS AND AL-NAIM SQUARE IN CENTRAL RAQQA

An article for the SUN newspaper on Al-Naim square in Raqqa, Syria – where ISIS carried out executions: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5675637/isis-square-terror-group-beheaded-enemies-impaled-head-spikes/

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ISIS THREAT TO BRITAIN MORE SEVERE THAN EVER AS MIDDLE EAST STRONGHOLDS CRUMBLE, WIFE OF FOREIGN JIHADI IN SYRIA CLAIMS

An interview for the SUN newspaper with the wife of a foreign ISIS fighter in Ayn Issa, Syria: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4541694/isis-threat-britain-severe-wife-syria-jihadi-claims/

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ON THE GROUND IN THE CAPITAL OF ISIS’S CALIPHATE IN RAQQA SYRIA

An article for Media Line on the fall of ISIS’s Capital in Syria: http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-Threat/On-the-ground-in-Raqqa-capital-of-Islamic-States-caliphate-507014

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ISIS’ TERROR CAPITAL RAQQA COULD FALL WITHIN DAYS

Article for the SUN newspaper inside Raqqa – ISIS capital in Syria – shortly before it’s liberation: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4516535/isis-capital-raqqa-could-fall-days/ 

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INTERVIEW ON THE LIBERATION OF TAL-AFAR

An interview on France24 on the announcement by the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi of the liberation of Tal-afar from the so-called Islamic State https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_RzIYrNdEE&t=12s

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INTERVIEW ON THE LIBERATION OF TAL-AFAR

An interview on i-24news Daily Dose on the announced by the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi of the liberation of the town of Tal-afar from the so-called Islamic State: https://www.i24news.tv/en/tv/replay/daily-dose/x5z21xz

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THE UPCOMING BATTLE FOR HAWIJA

An article for the SUN on the upcoming battle for ISIS last major stronghold in Iraq Hawija: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4376154/inside-the-battle-for-isiss-last-major-iraqi-stronghold-where-troops-face-fight-to-the-death-against-2000-bloodthirsty-jihadis/

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