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MyAJC
April 7, 2018
Nearly four years after the Islamic State began its genocidal takeover of vast stretches of land in northern Iraq, the terrorist organization is at last on the brink of defeat. And now clues left behind by the militants, along with early first-hand accounts from those who survived only begin to answer the troublingÃâà...
Rudaw
March 26, 2018
In Kirkuk they broke into the Kirkuk Republican Hospital in order to take a wounded militant out and fought a fight which lasted half an hour.” ... "The majority of those who had surrendered to the Peshmerga during the Hawija operation and later were handed over to the Iraqi forces have now been released,Ãâà...
Iraqi News
March 26, 2018
“A mortar missile fell on one of the main streets in Hawija town, west of Kirkuk, leaving two civilians wounded,” the source said. “Security troops cordoned off the blast scene and transferred the wounded to nearby hospital for treatment,” the source added, indicating that troops carried out a campaign toÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 20, 2018
As military victories by the Iraqi government and its allies have reduced IS-controlled territory to a fraction of what it once was, dozens of mass graves have been found like the one outside Badush. Swaraj said that the men identified this week had been hired to build a hospital in northern Iraq before theyÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 19, 2018
They managed to transfer the victims and the injured to Kirkuk Public Hospital,” he added. “The militants, who set up the ambush, ran away.” On Sunday, five civilians, including a woman, were killed in an armed attack, believed to be carried out by IS members against a village in al-Riyad town in Hawija.
Syrian War Daily (blog)
March 6, 2018
The clashes in Maarat al-Numaan also affected National Hospital in the locality, which was forced to shut down and be evacuated by the Syrian Civil Defense (The ... Iraqi Security Forces reportedly conducted operations against the Islamic State's elements in Al-Hawijah subdistrict over the past few days.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 27, 2018
In January, during an operation to clear Islamic State remnants from the Hawija area in nearby Kirkuk province, Iraqi soldiers and allied militiamen rounded up at least 235 people believed to ... Without them, she said, she could not persuade a local hospital to release the bodies of her dead family members.
NRT
February 27, 2018
ISIS militants also attacked Iraqi federal police and Shia paramilitary in Najati village in the district of Hawija, west of Kirkuk. NRT reporter said six members of the Iraqi forces and Hashid al-Shaabi wounded during clashes with ISIS militants transferred to a hospital in Dibis district in northwestern Kirkuk.
Los Angeles Times
February 26, 2018
In January, during an operation to clear Islamic State remnants from the Hawija area in nearby Kirkuk province, Iraqi soldiers and allied militiamen rounded up at least 235 people believed to ... Without them, she said, she could not persuade a local hospital to release the bodies of her dead family members.
Financial Tribune
February 20, 2018
M ore than two dozen members of pro-government forces in Iraq have been killed after being ambushed by the disguised self-styled Islamic State terrorists. Twenty-seven members of Hashd al-Shaabi, or the Popular Mobilization Forces, were killed after clashes broke out late Sunday in Hawija, a town inÃâà...
NRT
February 19, 2018
SULAIMANI — Security forces in Kirkuk repelled an attack by the Islamic State (ISIS) militants on a hospital inside the city, police said. A source from Komar hospital police told NRT early on Tuesday (February 20) that a group of ISIS militants including suicide bombers launched an attack on the hospital late on Monday.
ReliefWeb
February 11, 2018
Notably, life-saving emergency health services were provided to more than 24,000 people through five field hospitals close to the front-lines in Mosul, Hawija and Al-Qaim. To protect current humanitarian gains as well as reduce vulnerabilities, further investments in health are urgently needed. Support toÃâà...
YubaNet
February 4, 2018
All were from villages in the Hawija area, west of Kirkuk, and were brought to Daquq by Iraqi forces because they allegedly had ISIS-affiliated relatives. ... If one member of a family finds someone inside the camp to sponsor them and gets permission to leave, for example to go to the hospital, only thatÃâà...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
October 12, 2017
During the months leading up to the offensive, MSF began supporting the emergency rooms in the two main hospitals in Kirkuk with supplies, and training doctors and nurses working with ... In Qayyarah hospital, MSF is providing surgical and emergency medical care to war-wounded arriving from Hawijah.
Aljazeera.com
October 5, 2017
With the capture of Hawija, the only area that remains under control of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group in Iraq is a ... Major General Raid Shaker Jawdat, commander of Iraq's Federal Police, said, "The federal forces liberated the district of Hawija, the Hawija hospital asÃâà...
BBC News
September 21, 2017
Iraq has launched an offensive to expel Islamic State militants from Hawija, one of the last two areas in the country still held by the jihadists. The military said the operation to ... Schools and hospitals have shut down," said Aram Shakaram, the charity's deputy country director. "Now families face a terribleÃâà...
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