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    Jan 29

    Conquering the caliphate, our report from last week on the battle to destroy what's left of Islamic State territory in Syria. Cameraman Fred Scott,

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  2. 8 minutes ago

    And Fairuz. “Tik tik tik ya um Sulaiman”

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  3. 8 minutes ago

    I’m only in this game for the breakfasts...

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    53 minutes ago

    Really powerful piece by on the situation right now in NE Syria. It's innocents like 10-year-old Hamza who are bearing the brunt. He will join 55,000 people at al Hol camp. 2,000 spent Wed night sleeping out in the rain. I hope Hamza wasn't one of them

    Does he still like IS? "No. Why would I like them after all they have done?" Hamza, wounded by a roadside bomb is an IS orphan. “What will happen to me?”
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  5. 3 hours ago

    Does he still like IS? "No. Why would I like them after all they have done?" Hamza, wounded by a roadside bomb is an IS orphan. “What will happen to me?”

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    10 hours ago

    “What will happen to me?” Hamza asks to ... heartbreaking... was on

    The Islamic State group’s victims weren’t just their enemies; they brutalised their own children too. Meet 12-year-old orphan, Hamza on
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  7. 10 hours ago

    “Hamza Jasim al-Ali's world is small and terrible.”

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  8. 12 hours ago

    The Islamic State group’s victims weren’t just their enemies; they brutalised their own children too. Meet 12-year-old orphan, Hamza on

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  9. 12 hours ago

    Reverend Blue-jeans, by Neil Diamond

    What’s a song lyric you misheard to an embarrassing degree and for an embarrassingly long time? For years, I thought that 90s jam by Ini Kamoze went “I’m the leprechaun…
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  10. Retweeted
    13 hours ago

    "is not simply laying down arms and surrendering" per "They’re preparing to make a last stand which is making it harder to predict a quick ending"

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    13 hours ago

    Interesting way to show you're ready to go home.

    Some of the foreign ISIS wives taken to Al-Hol camp set fire to the tents of ordinary Syrian refugees and called them infidels, so they had to be put in a separate section.
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    13 hours ago

    Yes, ISIS is excessively cruel and there is a risk it will revive after loses its territory. But its threat should not be over-inflated - it is also in the process of suffering a humongous defeat from which it won't easily recover.

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    19 hours ago

    Born in the "caliphate" Devastating to think what a terrible start in life these kids are getting Pictures by team near

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  14. 14 hours ago

    Meanwhile, in Stirling ...

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    15 hours ago

    Female Isis members are being underestimated by security services because of jihadi bride stereotypes, UN warns

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  16. 21 hours ago

    Via

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    Feb 26

    When Egyptian singer Um Kalthoum (1898-1975) travelled Arab leaders would meet her, as though she was a world leader herself. She may have been the most influential woman of the Arab World in the 20th century. Here she is with UAE Founding President Sheikh Zayed in November 1971.

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  18. Feb 26

    Abu Malek!

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  19. Feb 26

    Indonesian and Russia children of Islamic State group.

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    Feb 26

    “We found silencers, bombs, and a suicide belt." U.S.-backed forces tell that ISIS fighters or civilians have tried to smuggle out weaponry on the walk to surrender.

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  21. Feb 26

    Isis detritus ... the destroyed their phones and usbs

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