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The Beatings Will Continue: Iraqi Edition
 Drug shortage leads to six deaths Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Six people died in the Kirkuk town of Hawija due to the insufficiency of medicinal supplies, according to a local source at the Islamic State-held region. “Six civilians, mostly elders with chronic diseases,died in Hawija due to the absence of medications,” the source told Alsumaria News on condition of anonymity. “Life has almost stopped due to the presence of the terrorist group and the absence of doctors and medication,” the source added. Tens of people have left Hawija since Islamic State took over in 2014 to more secure regions of Kirkuk. Some were reportedly executed by ISIS on attempting to flee the area or urging fellow citizens to migrate. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are living in difficult conditions either in refugee camps or cities still in ISIS grip. Iraqi security forces, popular militias and a US-led coalition have been on a major campaign since October to drive the militants out from several Iraqi cities, most notably Mosul, the group’s last bastion in Iraq. Food shortages and electricity hiccups have been reported in the city of Mosul as utilities sustained damage in battles between the extremist group and Iraqi troops. “The surge in violence between armed groups and government forces has resulted to over 3.1 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) across Iraq and left more than 10 million in need of humanitarian assistance,” according to the United Nation’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. ISIS detains 35 spooks in Hawija Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants have detained 35 former Iraqi army intelligence officers in Hawija, southwest Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad), according to security sources. “At a very late time of Sunday, ISIS members detained 35 former members of the 2nd intelligence division of the Iraqi army at the villages of Tal Ali, Mahouz, Sharia and Shawook,” said the source, revealing that the officers were driven to an unknown destination. He added that the extremist group accuses the former officers of collaborating with Iraqi forces which had advanced closer to al-Zab area, near Tigris River (30 km west of Hawija). ISIS, emerging to the scene in Iraq in 2014, took over several areas of Iraq, including parts of Kirkuk’s Hawija. They have, since then, launched several attacks on the town outskirts attempting to storm it. ISIS has been notorious for heinously executing people whom it accused of tipping off security about militants locations and activities. 90K refugees pour out of Ninevah, Hawija Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The number of refugees from Nineveh and Kirkuk’s town of Hawija has reached 90.000, said Iraq’ s Migration and Displacement Minister, Jassem al-Jaff. The number is a surge from last week’s announced total of 80.000 people who had left their hometowns escaping Islamic State militants. In the meantime, 1.5 million people have returned to their liberated areas, al-Jaff said during a ministry meeting on refugees on Monday. The ministry’s refugee relief commission had allocated 1.5 billion Iraqi dinars for the health ministry for the treatment of wounded refugees and security personnel. United Nations estimates put the number of internally-displaced Iraqis at above 3 million since January 2014. Other Iraqis are still stranded inside regions held by the Islamic State, and have recently been reported to suffer stinging shortages of daily livelihood under the extremist group’s rule. Posted by: badanov 2016-12-06 |
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