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Displaced people, who are fleeing from clashes in Al-hud village, south of Mosul, head to Qayyarah, during an operation to attack ISIS militants in Mosul in 2016. Reuters file photo

Baghdad Rules Out ‘Demographic Change’ in Liberated Areas

by Nayef Al-Rasheed | Jul 19, 2017 | Middle East

Riyadh– Iraqi Ambassador to Riyadh Mahmoud al-Aani denied any demographic change in areas liberated from ISIS, especially in the governorate of Nineveh and its major city Mosul. Commenting on calls by the United Nations to the Iraqi government to stop the imminent...

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Iraqi Federal Police celebrate in the Old City of Mosul. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad

Kurdish Official: ISIS Leader is in Syria

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 18, 2017 | Middle East

Erbil– Weeks after reports about his death, mystery still surrounds the fate of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi especially after the terrorist organization lost its stronghold in Iraq, Mosul. A Kurdish official revealed that Baghdadi is indeed alive and still leading...

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A woman on crutches who is a relative of men accused of being ISIS militants is seen at a camp in Bartella, east of Mosul, Iraq July 15, 2017. (Reuters)

As ISIS Militants Routed in Iraq, their Families Fear Reprisals

by Asharq Al-Awsat, Agencies | Jul 18, 2017 | Features

Bartella (northern Iraq) – Their husbands, sons and brothers are dead, but the women and children ISIS terrorists left behind will live to pay the price for their actions. As ISIS’s days of ruling over vast swathes of Iraq come to an end, questions are emerging...

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An Iraqi special forces soldier waves an Iraqi flag from top of a church damaged by ISIS militants in Bartella, east of Mosul, Iraq, October 21. 2016. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Liberation of Mosul, Return of Iraq

by Ghassan Charbel | Jul 17, 2017 | Opinion

The state of ISIS was not expected to live long. Neither Iraq can bear a cancerous tumor of this kind, nor the Kurdistan region can accept such a dangerous neighbor. The countries of the region cannot be lenient towards it. The world cannot tolerate it. Al-Baghdadi’s...

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Deputy Director of The Heritage Foundation James Carafano. (Getty Images)

Heritage Foundation Deputy Director: Iran’s Middle East Dream is an Illusion

by Huda Al Husseini | Jul 17, 2017 | Interviews

London – Deputy director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at The Heritage Foundation James Carafano declared that Iran’s expansionist ambitions in the Middle East will be met with regional and international opposition....