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Wilson Fache

Wilson Fache is a freelance Middle East correspondent. He has reported on a wide range of issues from Iraq, Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, and Kuwait, with a focus on the human cost of conflicts. On Twitter: @wilsonfache

Sarkoun Selio, a 50-year-old Assyrian Christian Syrian and one of the few Assyrians still living there, walks in the ruins of the Assyrian Church of the Virgin Mary, which was previously destroyed by Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in the village of Tal Nasri south of the town of Tal Tamr in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on November 15, 2019. - The few Assyrian Christians who escaped the Islamic State group invasion in 2015, and did not choose to emigrate, now anxiously watch the advance of Turki

Syrian Christians on front line have sad Christmas, again

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Raqqa still haunted by IS one year after its expulsion

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A perilous journey home for Raqqa residents

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Meet Mosul's rebellious tattoo artists

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A woman, who was wounded in a bombing at a Kurdish wedding in the northeast Syrian city of Hasaka, lies in a hospital in Dohuk province, Iraq, October 4, 2016. REUTERS/Ari Jalal - RTSQP7M

Health crisis in the making as doctors flee Iraq

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Military vehicles of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces are seen on the southeast of Mosul , Iraq, August 14, 2016. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari - RTX2KS2U

What is Turkish army really doing in Iraq?

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A Yazidi boy, 16, who was trained by Islamic State, wraps his head in a scarf as he stands by the fence of a playground at a refugee camp near the northern Iraqi city of Duhok April 19, 2016. The stories of boys from the minority Yazidi community now living in a refugee camp near the northern Iraqi city of Duhok appear to show efforts by Islamic State to create a new generation of fighters loyal to the group's ideology and inured to its extreme violence. The training often leaves them scarred, even after re

How this Yazidi man is saving IS captives

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Employees work at strengthening the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq, February 3, 2016. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari - RTX25B5A

Will faulty dam leave Mosul in deep water?

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Members of the Iraqi counter-terrorism forces inspect weapons that were found in an arms depot which belonged to Islamic State (IS) group jihadists, in the al-Tameem district of Ramadi, a large city on the Euphrates 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Baghdad on December 9, 2015. Iraqi forces consolidated newly gained positions in Ramadi, after achieving a breakthrough in their fight against the Islamic State (IS) group by retaking a large part of the city.
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How American weapons are ending up in the hands of IS

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An officer speaks to Kurdish Peshmerga forces during a training session by coalition forces on how to fight street battles and defend the front lines in a training camp in the outskirts of Arbil, north of Iraq, March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari - RTR4UN6E

Battling from their refugee tents: Meet the Kurdish peshmergas fighting to take back their homes

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Erbil refugee camp prioritizes education

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