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The Beatings Will Continue: Iraqi Edtion
 ISIS recruits 25K in Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – Islamic State militants have forced nearly 25,000 civilians from the western part of Salahuddin’s Sharqat precinct to Hawija, Kirkuk to use them as future human shields, according to a municipal official. Ali Al-Dawdah said Tuesday the militant group confiscated the civilians’ ID and food rations cards before herding them to Hawija. “The terrorist group brought huge buses and trucks, forcing nearly 25.000 civilians to move to Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk.” “ISIS called upon the people through mosques loudspeakers to evacuate the western area,” Dawdah added, explaining that the militants would presumably use the confiscated IDs to conceal their identities from security apparatuses.” Iraqi joint forces said in September they had totally liberated Sharqat from ISIS. Government forces, assisted by popular militias and US aircraft continue campaigns across Iraq to liberate areas held by ISIS since the group emerged to the conflict’s scene in Iraq in 2014. ISIS removes 80 families in Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh– Islamic State militants have evacuated more than 80 families from Faisaliya, west of Mosul, to other districts in the east, Alsumaria News reported. “The move is aimed at booby-trapping the emptied houses or turn them into ambushes for the security forces advancing on several axes from the western coast of Mosul,” said a local source, on conditions of anonymity. ISIS had used the houses of migrating families as shelters for its fighters and mini-factories for explosives. Joint Iraqi forces and US aircrafts continue a weeks-old campaign to liberate Mosul from ISIS and strip the extremist group of its last bastion in Iraq. The Iraqi Red Crescent said on Monday it had received more than 26000 refugees from Nineveh. The United Nations predicted September that battles in Mosul would drive out one million people. Baghdadi close to selecting new (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh–The Islamic State’s supreme leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is apparently mulling the appointment of his first deputy, Alsumaria News reported. The unprecedented move seeks to ensure the existence of a leader in case Baghdadi is killed, the network added. “ISIS media have started to circulate Baghdadi’s decision,” according to a source who spoke on conditions of anonymity. “Promoting the notion of ‘the Caliph’s successor’ is unprecedented in Mosul, and had always been a sensitive issue that no one could bring up, even ISIS senior leaders,” said the source. The identity of the upcoming deputy leader will not be announced at present for fear of possible divisions within the group’s ranks over the selection, according to the source. The first-of-kind announcement is possibly denoting Baghdadi’s feeling of danger as Iraqi joint forces, assisted by US aircrafts and Shia militias, continue to advance to Mosul, making wide-scale victories over ISIS at many parts of the city. Baghdadi came to the picture when ISIS gained vast grounds in Iraq and Syria starting in 2014, with the proclaimed mission of establishing an Islamic Caliphate in Iraq and Syria. ISIS deploys child soldiers to Mosul's Old Town (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Islamic State militants have deployed armed kids in Mosul’s Old City as means to give impression of control over its last bastion in Iraq in face of security campaigns seeking to liberate the city, Alsumaria News reported. The kids, infamously known as “Cubs of the Caliphate”, have suddenly reappeared in the alleys, armed with light weapons and explosive belts, in an attempt to show that the group was still in control of the city despite consecutive victories by the security forces and allied militias advancing to the city, a local source told the network, on condition of anonymity. ISIS is known to have opened training camps for minors since it took over Mosul in June 2014 to train them on using weapons and carrying out suicide attacks, in some cases forcing a number of them to change their faiths. ISIS destroys buildings in Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Ministry of Defense media channel released a video on Tuesday showing the damage left by the self-proclaimed Islamic State in the district of Hamdaniyah, before being defeated by the army’s 9th Armored Brigade. The video revealed that the ISIS set civilians’ houses, government’s buildings, oil and vehicles tires ablaze to block the vision of Iraqi Army Aviation that targets the group’s headquarters and hideouts. Hamdaniyah district, which is located to the south of the city of Mosul, is one of the districts inhabited by Christian majority, in addition to villages inhabited by Yazidis and Shabak, who suffered several brutal acts by the ISIS terrorist gangs. The video also declared that the Islamic state members robbed the contents of the civilians’ houses and destroyed infrastructure in the district, before setting the buildings ablaze. Despite the damage left by the ISIS in the district, Hamdaniyah residents celebrated the liberation, and formed Hashd Masehi (Christian militia) to control and protect the area, as well as providing support to the security forces and allowing them to advance and chase the remaining ISIS members. Video report at the link ISIS executes 3 in Hawija (IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – Leader at al-Hashd al-Shaabi, Odai al-Khedran, announced on Wednesday, that the Islamic State extremist group executed three suicide bombers, including a Saudi, in the district of Hawija, after escaping from a detention center. Khedran said in a press statement, “The ISIS executed three of his suicide bombers holding Arab nationalities, including a 20-year-old Saudi member, after escaping from a detention center in Hawija district, southwest of Kirkuk.” “The executed suicide bombers were informed to be prepared to launch a suicide attack using booby-trapped vehicles,” Khedran added. “The ISIS detains its suicide bombers inside prison-like centers to isolate them from any outer effects,” Khedran explained. ISIS captured the district of Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk since June 2014, and it is considered one of its key strongholds in Iraq. ISIS executes 30 in Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – The self-proclaimed Islamic State extremist group executed 30 civilians in central Mosul by electrocution for collaborating with security forces, Alsumaria News reported on Wednesday. Alsumaria News stated, “The members of the Islamic State, today, electrocuted 30 civilians to death in one of its headquarters in the eastern coast of Mosul on charges of collaboration with security forces.” “The terrorist group filmed the execution of the civilians, after being sentenced to death by the so-called ISIS Sharia Court in Wilayet Ninewa,” Alsumaria explained. “The ISIS was detaining the executed civilians inside one of its prisons in the western coast of the city,” Alsumaria added. Security forces continue battles to liberate the province of Nineveh from the ISIS grip, backed by international coalition and Iraqi aviation. Posted by: badanov 2016-11-10 |
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