Iraq Declares End Of ISIS Caliphate With Recapture Of Grand Al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul

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“The return of al-Nuri Mosque and al-Hadba minaret to the fold of the nation marks the end of the Daesh state of falsehood,” Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in a statement, referring to the hardline Sunni Mulsim group by an Arabic acronym…

“Their fictitious state has fallen,” an Iraqi military spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Rasool, told state TV.

Aware of the symbolic importance of the mosque, retreating ISIS soldiers blew it up last week and then tried to blame it on a U.S. airstrike:

Its stronghold in Syria, Raqqa, is also close to falling.

A U.S.-backed Kurdish-led coalition besieging Raqqa on Thursday fully encircled it after closing the militants' last way out from the south

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-mosul-idUSKBN19K0YZ

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yep, now it's up to the UN to kick the Caliphate out of Europe


Police bundle 'machete-wielding man' to the ground as two are arrested near Cardiff stadium

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...est-machete-wielding-man-outside-stadium.html

 

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Bomma's not going to be happy about this.

 

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