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Iraqi Journalist Bakhtiyar Haddad Killed in Mosul

HeadlineJun 20, 2017

Iraqi journalist Bakhtiyar Haddad was killed by an exploding mine while he was working with a France 2 television crew covering the U.S.-led military coalition’s assault on the Old City of Mosul. Two French reporters and a freelance journalist were also injured in the explosion on Monday. The U.N. warns as many as 150,000 people remain trapped in a desperate situation in Mosul’s Old City amid the offensive. Elsewhere in Iraq, Airwars says as many as 19 civilians were reportedly killed when a U.S.-led coalition airstrike hit a mosque last Wednesday in Tal Afar, which is about 50 miles west of Mosul.

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