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The Iraqi sniper called the “sheikh of snipers” by the men hunting ISIS

In a now-famous 2016 battlefield clip, Iraqi veteran Abu Tahsin al-Salihi sits calmly behind his rifle, scanning for another ...
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Snipers track jihadists around the clock

A few hundred metres from an iconic mosque in west Mosul, Iraqi sniper Salah al-Zuheiri has his eye glued to his scope as he searches for Islamic State group jihadists. Iraqi forces are battling to ...
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Snipers target Mosul jihadists using human shields

Hundreds of thousands of civilians are still trapped in Mosul, caught between advancing Iraqi forces and the Islamic State group jihadists that they are fighting to defeat. Iraqi officials and ...
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From the archives: A sniper sights in on a target during an exercise in Iraq, 2016

A Kurdish sniper sights in on a target during an exercise at a training site outside Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdish ...
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The Final Battle of “Hawk Eye”: How Iraq’s Most Famous Sniper Faced ISIS and Met His Fate

The Final Battle of “Hawk Eye”: How Iraq’s Most Famous Sniper Faced ISIS and Met His Fate Part 2 of the incredible true story of Abu Tahsin al-Salihi — the “Sheikh of Snipers.” See rare battlefield ...
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Iraq investigates claim of civilian deaths as Mosul battle continues

BAGHDAD — Iraq has deployed snipers to target militants using civilians as human shields in Mosul, as it investigates airstrikes that reportedly killed large numbers of residents in the city, the ...
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Report: Canadian sniper shattered world record for the longest confirmed kill in history

This certainly wasn’t hand-to-hand combat. A Canadian soldier in Iraq has killed an ISIS militant from more than two miles away, shattering the world record for a confirmed sniper kill in military ...