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Owen Holdaway

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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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AN ARTICLE ON CAPTURED WESTERN ISIS MEMBERS TRY TO RETURN HOME

An article for the SUN online about western extremists who turned their back on Europe are now trying to be transferred to jails back home: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6754344/whinging-western-isis-fanatics-beg-to-be-transferred-to-european-jails-as-theyre-left-to-rot-in-syrias-hellhole-prisons/

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FRANCE 24 INTERVIEW ON THE RETAKING OF KIRKUK

An interview on France24 in Baghdad on the retaking of the oil rich city of Kirkuk from the Kurdish peshmerga forces by the Iraqi army: http://www.france24.com/en/video/20171016-owen-holdaway-reports-baghdad

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DRIFTING CRAZE HITTING BAGHDAD

An article for the SUN newspaper on the new car craze hitting the capital of Iraq: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5398887/iraq-isis-street-racing-drift-craze-latest/

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SURVIVING ISIS IN FALLUJAH IRAQ

An article for the SUN newspaper on a father who lost his family in a car bomb in Fallujah, Iraq: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4882200/iraqi-dads-wife-and-kids-killed-by-isis-bomb-while-trying-to-flee-terror-group-in-fallujah/

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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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