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Owen Holdaway

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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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AN ON CAMERA INTERVIEW WITH A FOREIGN ISIS FIGHTER

A tense video interview with a Swizz born citizen and ISIS fighter, who joined back in 2015 and was a member of the terrorist organization till 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTB4FnKGtmg

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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 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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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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