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FOOTAGE OF NEWLY DISCOVERED ANCIENT PALACE AT MOSUL DAM

A story, with aerial footage, of an ancient Mittani Palace uncovered in Mosul Dam in Northern Iraq as the water levels have dropped due to increasing temperatures and strong droughts in recent years.

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ARTICLE ON ISIS SUICIDE ATTACK INSIDE WEST MOSUL

An article for http://9news.com.au on ISIS suicide bombers posed as Iraqi soldiers to trick Mosul’s liberated civilians: http://www.9news.com.au/world/2017/06/24/08/52/suicide-bombers-posed-as-iraqi-soldiers-to-trick-mosuls-liberated-civilians

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VIDEO OF AN ISIS SNIPER HITTING A GOPRO INSIDE WEST MOSUL

Video of an ISIS sniper hitting a GoPro inside West Mosul: [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbEch_iZwqk[/embedyt] Copyright: Owen Holdaway    

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POV VISION OF INTENSE CLASHES AGAINST ISIS INSIDE WESTERN MOSUL

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AlEdgLDp0U[/embedyt] POV [point of view] vision of the battle for the ‘old quarter’ of Western Mosul with the elite “Swat” unit of the Federal Police. The GoPro footage show running past various ISIS sniper position to the Federal Police’s […]

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Article on children of Mosul being killed by ISIS car bombs and maimed by sniper fire

Article for the Sun on the children of western Mosul: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3190201/isis-car-bomb-sniper-mosul-killing-kids/

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A sniper attack in west Mosul

A sniper attack in west Mosul while embedded with the Iraqi Special Operation Forces: ISIS bullets whizz past Sun reporter on the ground in Mosul as snipers target journalists

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MOMENT ISIS MORTAR LANDS WITHIN A FEW FEET, BUT FAILS TO EXPLODE

Dramatic video footage of the moment an ISIS’s mortar round lands just feet from me in west Mosul, but fails to explode: [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li-qSbLvQEs[/embedyt]

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ARTICLE ON A MORTAR ATTACK ON ME INSIDE MOSUL

Terrifying moment ISIS mortar round lands just feet from Sun reporter in the thick of the battle to blast terror fanatics out of Mosul: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3106237/isis-mortar-mosul-sun-reporter-battle/

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ARTICLE WHILE EMBEDDED WITH THE FEDERAL POLICE INSIDE WEST MOSUL

Inside the battle for Mosul where Iraqi troops face ISIS suicide bombers and snipers in bloody battle to liberate terror stronghold https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3058853/inside-the-battle-for-mosul-where-elite-iraqi-troops-face-isis-suicide-bombers-and-snipers-in-brutal-fight-to-the-death-as-they-battle-to-liberate-terror-stronghold/

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ARTICLE ON THE KHASFA MASSIVE GRAVE JUST OUTSIDE MOSUL

A SUN article on a mass killing site, Khasfa sinkhole, in between the town of Hammam Al-Alil and West Mosul: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2967802/chilling-images-reveal-inside-biggest-mass-grave-in-iraq-where-isis-buried-bodies-of-thousands-of-enemies-in-400m-deep-sinkhole/

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