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@rcallimachi

Correspondent for The New York Times, covering ISIS. NBC contributor. Previously, seven years in West Africa. Ex-AP bureau chief. Ex-refugee.

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    5 Apr 2018

    1. Hello everyone, I wanted to share what I learned from the more than 15,000 pages of ISIS documents that my team and I unearthed over five different trips to Iraq. We recovered the records in 11 different cities and towns. First up, how we found them.

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  2. 3 minutes ago

    7. The number of overseas recruits to ISIS coming out of this pocket is stunning. This 28-year old woman, mom of two toddlers, said she was from the Lawrence Heights area of Toronto. She said her name was Dure Ahmed. She came out with a 34-year old Canadian woman from Alberta:

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    6. But watching from a distance, we saw that the men are told to approach US forces single file, arms in the air. Jackets come off. Turbans are searched. One day there was a sniffer dog. They’re fingerprinted, photographed, questioned. Some are taken to prison. Most go to a camp

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    5. When the trucks arrive, the American-backed Kurdish militia separates men from women. Next they’re made to sit in separate areas, based on nationality. American troops arrive by mid-morning and begin screening the men first. We were not allowed to photograph US troops.

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    4. Kurdish forces told us that this is a sign that the escapees are nearly all linked to ISIS. Why would you move from say Turkey or Iraq into the crosshairs of a town controlled by the Islamic State and face Coalition bombings, unless you are a willing citizen of the caliphate?

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    3. We were at the arrival point and saw pickup trucks arrive with the escapees in the back. We’ve seen between 150 and 200 people be processed. What’s striking is we couldn’t find a single person that is actually from Baghuz. They are nearly all from somewhere else.

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  7. 2 hours ago

    2. The frontline is roughly 10 km away in a village called Baghuz, where ISIS now controls an area the size of Central Park. For the last two weeks, thousands of people have been streaming out of this last slice of the caliphate in Syria, arriving at the place marked below:

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  8. 2 hours ago

    1. Good morning everyone, today and a few days ago, and I drove into the Syrian desert to the spot in a rocky field where suspected ISIS members, their wives & children are surrendering to Coalition-backed forces. Follow along:

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  9. Retweeted
    18 hours ago

    Trump made a U-turn from the claim that “ISIS had been defeated” and that “Turkey would take care of remnants of ISIS”, saying “Territory’s gone and US will do everything to fight its remnants”. Did he finally started to listen to commanders and people with expertise?

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    18 hours ago

    Another incredible story from (and photos by ), the kind of vital journalism I'm proud we do at -- not because it gets clicks, but because we should.

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    20 hours ago

    A Desperate Exodus From ISIS’s Final Village

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    Feb 6

    Last year the company added 120 newsroom employees, bringing the total number of journalists at The Times to 1,600, the largest count in its history.

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    Feb 5

    If you want to know what’s really going on in and and the fight against , it’s worth listening carefully to General Votel. America has been fortunate to have had him on watch over the last three years.

    General Joseph Votel, commander of the U.S. Central Command testifies on military operations in Syria and Afghanistan before the Senate Armed Services Committee - LIVE on C-SPAN3
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    Feb 5

    President Trump said the United States and its allies are destroying the remnants of ISIS. But to suggest that ISIS has been defeated is to ignore the lessons of recent history, wrote in January.

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    Feb 5

    Sources interviewed by HRW saying some of the 146 “terrorists” killed in recent ops in Yatenga + other provinces were executed, some in front of family. All groups: stop collective punishment. HRW just out of Burkina; report on atrocities by security forces, jihadists out soon.

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    Feb 5

    A British journalist taken prisoner by ISIS in Syria more than six years ago is believed to still be alive, the British government said

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    Feb 5

    General Votel, CDRUSCENTCOM, to Senate Armed Services Committee: The fight against & violent extremists is not over & our mission has not changed. The ’s hard-won battlefield gains can only be secured by maintaining a vigilant offensive" against ISIS.

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    Feb 4

    1) Key assessment in DOD IG report is consistent with SITE’s inSITE on reports, quoting USCENTCOM in stating “ISIS is regenerating key functions & capabilities more quickly in Iraq than in Syria.” Not surprising given losses in Syria & easy access to Iraq's ungoverned areas

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    Feb 2

    The ability to conduct attacks like this has little to do with IS’ control over a small plot of land in Syria. This is why focusing narrowly on territorial control is misleading. Attacks like this are IS’ bread and butter. Don’t forget.

    IS militants claim house raid that killed the mukhtar of 'Anaz village south of Falluja city:
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    Feb 1

    Proud to work for a publisher who speaks truth to Trump and advocates for journalists far beyond the ⁦⁩ (and does it all while changing diapers, btw)

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  21. Feb 1

    Check out the footage of the talented

    Our new piece about the last breath of Daesh in Syria. With the amazing colleagues
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