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Thursday 26 November 2020
Amnesty International say the coalition has only admitted to around 10% of the deaths.
The city’s loss would be the latest in a string of heavy blows for IS.
IS replaced the traditional curriculum in schools, it taught children how to carry out suicide attacks and boasted about the “virgins” with which the attacker could be rewarded.
More than 320,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began with anti-government demonstrations in March 2011.
The new restriction comes as a Kurdish-Arab alliance of fighters nears Raqa, backed by the US-led coalition launching air strikes against IS.
US Special Forces say they’ve currently no plans to take the de facto capital of Raqqa.
Meanwhile, the hunt for Salah Abdeslam continues.
Two people have now been charged with involvement with terrorism following the attacks.
The United Arab Emirates, meanwhile, said it would station a squadron of F-16 warplanes in Jordan.
US officials have declined to comment on the reports.
Clashes across the country have continued today as some estimates now put the death toll from the civil war at over 29,000 since early last year.
THE GREYHOUND RACING industry has been put in the spotlight again this week, the Social Democrats put forward a motion proposing to end State funding of the sector.
Writing for TheJournal.ie this week, TD Holly Cairns explained that greyhound racing in Ireland will receive €19.2m in public funding next year – an increase of €2.4m on 2020.
Last year, an RTÉ investigation claimed that almost 6,000 greyhounds were killed for not racing fast enough in 2017.
But advocates for the sector have claimed it supports thousands of jobs and that annual Government funding represents an economic investment.
So, today we’re asking: Should the Government stop funding greyhound racing?
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