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ISIS has enslaved and auctioned off women. (Reuters)

ISIS Wives Live in Oppression, Slavery

by Taha Abed alWahed | Jul 16, 2017 | Features

Moscow – The terror group ISIS is known for its demeaning and objectifying treatment of women. The ultra-hardliners would enslave and auction off women in a special arena to the highest bidder. What is more is that even the wives of ISIS members have not been spared...

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. (SPA)

Saudi Crown Prince Congratulates US Defense Secretary on Mosul Victory

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 16, 2017 | Saudi Arabia

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, congratulated US Defense Secretary James Mattis on the victory of Iraqi forces in defeating the ISIS terrorist group in the city of Mosul, reported the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). The...

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Iraqi tanks can be seen during a victory parade held over the liberation of Mosul from ISIS in Baghdad, Iraq on July 15, 2017. (Reuters)

Iraq PM Abadi Attends Military Parade Celebrating Mosul Victory

by Thaer Abbas | Jul 16, 2017 | Middle East

Baghdad – Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi on Saturday attended a massive military parade in Baghdad celebrating the victory announced against the terror group ISIS in Mosul. National army, police and other security troops along with Popular Mobilization...

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An artillerymen from the 82nd Airborne Division is photographed on a base north of Mosul.(Loveday Morris/The Washington Post)

America Can Succeed Militarily in the Mideast

by David Ignatius | Jul 15, 2017 | Opinion

What lessons can we take from ISIS’ defeat in Mosul and its coming eviction from Raqqa? The collapse of the so-called “caliphate” tells us that the United States can succeed militarily in the Middle East if — and probably only if — it works with local forces who are...

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Civilians walk along a heavily-damaged street in west Mosul on July 13, 2017. (AFP Photo/SAFIN HAMED)

Mosul Residents Search for Bodies of their Relatives in Old City

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 15, 2017 | Middle East

Mosul- Abdelrazaq Salman has lost everything but clings onto one last hope: finding the bodies of his family members killed when his home was bombed in Mosul’s war-devastated Old City in northern Iraq. “I had a little supermarket. I had worked hard from...