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The Beatings Will Continue: Iraqi Edition
 More executions in Kirkuk Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) The Islamic State has released a new video showing members shooting and beheading individuals, some of whom are believed to be security agents, to death in Kirkuk over “treason” and collaboration with security forces. The first part of the video, presumably filmed somewhere this week, shows a masked militant with a knife declaring the death sentence of two whom he said “agreed to be stooges for crusaders” as he put it, saying their execution was to make them “an example”. The pair was laid to the ground, tied from the back, had the throats cut and left to bleed. A crowd, which apparently included children, cheered. A similar style of the execution was adopted with three others who appeared in the following scene of the graphic video, which was also preceded by a threatening speech by a militant. Islamic State beheading an individual in Kirkuk over treason. Another segment of the video showed a militant questioning a young boy who admitted collaboration with security forces by providing information about the group’s weaponry, and confessed to taking snaps of its locations. He is shown kneeling on the debris of a house and shot in the head from the back by one militant. A last part shows two others shot in the back head by masked militants. Since it occupied large areas of Iraq in 2014, Islamic State has posted videos of heinous executions of civilians, security personnel, and foreign workers over multiple charges. Some of the executions were even carried out by little children. Elder, grandson dies in drone attack in Mosul Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi elder and his grandson were killed in western Mosul in an explosion caused by a bomb dropped from an Islamic State-guided drone, a local source said Friday. The septuagenarian and his grandson were passing through Bab al-Toub region in western Mosul when a drone flown by the extremist group dropped a bomb in the area, the source told Alsumaria News, adding that several civilians had died and were wounded as drones dropped small bombs on residential areas. Islamic State is still holding most of western Mosul as Iraqi forces are a few districts away from declaring the eastern region free from the extremist group. Iraqi government forces, backed by a popular militias and a US-led military coalition, have entered a third month of military operations to retake the city, claiming to have killed more than 3000 militants since then. Militants have reportedly begun to flee the eastern side to the west. The conflict in Mosul has forced at least 178.000 to leave their homes to refugee camps since the launch of operations, but IS has targeted civilians attempting to flee areas it has held since its emergence in 2014. The United Nations fears operations will displace at least one million people. Posted by: badanov 2017-01-21 |
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